 | Thomas Hunter - Philosophy - 1900 - 136 pages
...one which was to live in history. His father, Sir Nicholas Bacon, was a famous statesman and lawyer, lord keeper of the great seal in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Francis, no doubt, inherited much of his wisdom and eloquence also from his mother, who sprang from... | |
 | Joseph Thomas - Biography - 1901 - 1344 pages
...of the most illustrious philosophers of modern times, was born in London, the 22d of January, 1561. His father was Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper of the great seal under Elizabeth. His mother was Lady Anne, the daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, and the sister of Mildred,... | |
 | Abby Willis Howes - English literature - 1903 - 238 pages
...the men of his generation. His early life brought him in connection with the court and state affairs. His father was Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and his uncle was the famous Lord Burleigh, Queen Elizabeth's most trusted adviser. To make a statesman... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - English literature - 1906 - 806 pages
...deserting a friend — which two acts have left blots upon his reputation that no time can efface. His father was Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England. His mother was Anne Cooke, whose father, Sir Anthony Cooke, had been tutor to Edward VI.... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1907 - 690 pages
...First Book of Ecclesiastical Polity. FRANCIS BACON. Francis Bacon was born in London, January 22, 1561. His father was Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and one of the most trusted of the Bacon" early statesmen of Elizabeth; a yet more famous statesman,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 780 pages
...(See Memoir of the late John Baton, RA, by the Rev. Richard Cecil- London, 1811.) BACON, SIR NICHOLAS, lord keeper of the great seal in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was born at Chislehurst in Kent in 1510, and educated at the university of Cambridge, after which he... | |
 | Abby Willis Howes - American literature - 1909 - 238 pages
...the men of his generation. His early life brought him in connection with the court and state affairs. His father was Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and his uncle was the famous Lord Burleigh, Queen Elizabeth's most trusted adviser. To make a statesman,... | |
 | Alice Chambers Bunten - 1919 - 98 pages
...Staple at Calais, whose daughter married John Maynard Esq. This latter gentleman sold the estate to Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Aubrey, writing of Bacon during his Chancellorship, says : " When his Lordship arrived the town of... | |
 | Abby Willis Howes - English literature - 1903 - 238 pages
...the men of his generation. His early life brought him in connection with the court and state affairs. His father was Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and his uncle was the famous Lord Burleigh, Queen Elizabeth's most trusted adviser. To make a statesman... | |
 | Alice Chambers Bunten - 1928 - 98 pages
...Staple at Calais, whose daughter married John Maynard, Esq. The latter gentleman sold the estate to Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Aubrey, writing of Bacon during his Chancellorship, says : " When his Lordship arrived, the town of... | |
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He was born in 1560, being son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, by Ann, daughter of sir Anthony Cook, eminent for her skill in the Latin and Greek languages. 
