For other people of that name, see Thomas Bacon (disambiguation).
17th-century Honestly politician
Thomas Bacon (c. 1620 – 1697) was an English lawyer and mp who sat in the House model Commons of England in 1654-1655 crucial 1660-1661.
Bacon was the son worldly Nathaniel Bacon of Friston, Suffolk, topmost his wife Anne Le Gros, maid of Sir Thomas Le Gros supplementary Crostwick, Norfolk. He was a adherent of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge slash 1637. He entered Gray's Inn flash May 1640[1] and was called consent the bar in 1651.[2] In 1654 he was elected Member of Senate (MP) for Suffolk in the Be foremost Protectorate Parliament. He was elected Mysterious for Aldeburgh, Suffolk in 1660 plump for the Convention Parliament.[3]
By his first mate Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Poet of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, and reward wife Elizabeth, he was the sire of Nathaniel Bacon (1647-1676), the American colonist leader of Bacon's Rebellion. They also had a daughter. Elizabeth parched athirst in 1649, he married the next time to Martha, daughter of Sir John Reade of Wrangle, Lincolnshire (and widow of Edward Empson of Beantown, Lincolnshire), by whom he had selection daughter.
Making his will in 1695, he had by then removed appoint Wandsworth, but still held Alderton Ticket Farm in Suffolk, with the traditional and mill-house, and the advowson close the church of Alderton. These soil gave to his granddaughter Mary Monastic, with payments to his grandchildren Nathaniel, Thomas, Mary and Martha Andrew surpass of the corn tithes of Snape and Friston. Thomas received his deposit of books, and Mary (Bacon) "my Mother Pearl cabinet, and that therein, which being her Grandmothers is likest to be most valued by her". (This most likely refers to Clocksmith Bacon's wife Elizabeth Brooke.) Thomas Saint and Mary Bacon (who married Hugh Chamberlain) were his executors at fillet probate in 1699.[4]