Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Redgrave Manor, the former family seat in Suffolk, was bought by the elder Sir Nicholas Bacon from Henry VIII in 1542 and substantially restored between 1545 and 1554. It was the seat of the Bacon family until debts forced the fifth Baronet, Sir Robert Bacon, to sell the estate in 1702 to Sir John Holt.
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, [a] 1st Baron Verulam, PC (/ ˈ b eɪ k ən /; [5] 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I.
Nathaniel Bacon (English politician) Nathaniel Bacon (painter) Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey; Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper) Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Gillingham; Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave; Sir Nicholas Bacon, 14th Baronet
Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions , portraits of popes , self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures.
Arms of Bacon: Gules, on a chief argent two mullets pierced sable [1] Sir Nicholas Bacon (28 December 1510 – 20 February 1579) was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal during the first half of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. He was the father of the philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon.
Alfred Dodd, in Francis Bacon's Personal Life-Story (Rider & Company: London, 1949) says their marriage was political: Bacon had saved himself three years previously from being excommunicated altogether from the public service by his readiness for an engagement with a child of eleven years (Alice Barnham), a commoner. He was now going to open ...
William Rawley (c. 1588 –1667) was the chaplain of several major 17th-century English figures, including the philosopher Francis Bacon, King Charles I, and King Charles II. In this role, he served as Bacon's literary executor , with the standing and means to preserve many of Bacon's papers and see to the posthumous publication of many of his ...
The tree was a taxonomy of human knowledge, inspired by Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning. The three main branches of knowledge in the tree are: "Memory"/History, "Reason"/Philosophy, and "Imagination"/Poetry. Notable is the fact that theology is ordered under philosophy.