Sir Robert Bacon, 3rd Baronet

Sir Robert Bacon, 3rd Baronet of Redgrave was born in 4 May 1574 in Redgrave Manor, Suffolk. He would die on 16 December 1655, Ryburgh, Norfolk.[2] was an English politician.[3] Robert would spend most of his life residing in Riborough in Norfolk.[4] He was the fifth son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet and his wife Anne Butts, daughter of Edmund Butts.[5] In 1649, he succeeded his older brother Edmund as baronet.[6] Bacon was buried at Ryburgh in Norfolk[5] and was succeeded in the baronetcy by Edmund, a son of his seventh son.[7]

Arms of Bacon: Gules, on a chief argent two mullets pierced sable[1]

Family

Bacon was married two times.[5] He had nine sons and three daughters by his first wife, Anne Peyton, daughter of Sir John Peyton, 1st Baronet, of Cambridge.[8] Some of his sons were Nathaniel, Edmund, Henry, Francis, and Drury. Those sons all died while young.[7] The other sons were named Nicholas, Hobart, and Robert.[7] Nicholas would marry a woman named Margaret and Robert would marry a woman named Catherine.[7]

References

  1. Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd., Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.34
  2. "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Retrieved 27 March 2009.
  3. Harvey, William (1878). "Rev. G. H. Dashwood - The Visitation of Norfolk. Vol. I.Norwich: Miller & Leavine. p. 343 - Sir Robert Bacon, 3rd Bt of Redgrave". Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  4. Wotton, Thomas (1771). The baronetage of England:containing a genealogical and historical account of all the English baronets now existing ... illustrated with their coats of arms ... To which is added an account of such Nova Scotia baronets as are of English families; and a dictionary of heraldry ... by E. Kimber and R. Johnson. London. hdl:2027/mdp.39015065251160.
  5. "ThePeerage - Sir Robert Bacon, 3rd Bt". Retrieved 21 January 2009.
  6. Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. vol. I (fifth ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 3.
  7. Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 65.
  8. Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. vol. I. London: Thomas Wotton. pp. 9–10.
Baronetage of England
Preceded by
Edmund Bacon
Baronet
(of Redgrave)
1649–1655
Succeeded by
Edmund Bacon
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