| Birth: | Jan. 22, 1561 | | Death: | Apr. 4, 1626 | 
Phliosopher, essayist and politician. Lord Chancellor of England. Alleged unwarrantably by some to have been the writer of Shakespeare's plays. Notable works include 'On the Advancement of Learning' , an early attempt at an encyclopaedia. Died after catching bronchitis when stuffing a chicken with snow to see whether it would be preserved, thus anticipating frozen food. The Latin inscription on the statue base begins (in translation): "Francis Bacon, first Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, better known as the Light of Knowledge and the Law of Eloquence, used to sit thus. In the year of Our Lord 1626, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, after he had unravelled every secret of the natural world and of the world of man, he fulfilled the decree of nature that whatosever things have been joined together must be sundered." (bio by: David Conway)
Search Amazon for Francis Bacon | | | Burial:
Trinity College
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Cambridge
Cambridgeshire, England
Plot: Chapel (he is buried at the Church of St. Michael, St. Albans, UK)
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Record added: Apr 18, 2001
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sniksnak
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Jackie Howard
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A genius whose depth of knowledge and intellectual greatness has not even today been fully acknowledged due to his pseudonym Shake-speare, and allusion to Pallus Athena. He was wrongly attacked and not one of his 8,000 verdicts was ever overturned, which ...(Read more)
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Lewis Sousa
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