Talk:Sir Robert Bacon, 3rd Baronet

Not the MP
The History of Parliament (Robert Bacon 1562-1633) is clear that this Robert Bacon isn't the same as the one who was MP for St Ives in 1621 - it looks like they were distant cousins.


 * The senior branch of the family came to national prominence thanks to the rise of Sir Nicholas Bacon†, Elizabeth’s long-serving lord keeper.11 Although Bacon was in fact only distantly related to the lord keeper, he nevertheless enjoyed the support of Sir Nicholas’s son, (Sir) Francis Bacon*, who described him in 1594 as ‘a near kinsman ... of ... honest and civil disposition’. [Sir Nicholas here is this article's grandfather, Sir Francis is his uncle].

I've split out a redlink at Robert Bacon (MP) and removed mention of his parliamentary service from the article, but noting it here since some of the older sources have him as being the MP. I have given him as "landowner" in the lead (since he clearly had substantial estates but there's no longer anything to support "politician") but happy to go with a different descriptor. Andrew Gray (talk) 15:46, 24 June 2023 (UTC)