Sir Robert Bacon, 3rd Baronet

Sir Robert Bacon, 3rd Baronet of Redgrave (born 4 May 1574 Redgrave Manor, Suffolk; d 16 December 1655 Ryburgh, Norfolk)[2] was an English politician.[3]

For other people named Robert Bacon, see Robert Bacon (disambiguation).

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

He was the fifth son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet and his wife Anne Butts, daughter of Edmund Butts.[4] In 1649, he succeeded his older brother Edmund as baronet.[5]

Bacon was married two times.[4] He had nine sons and three daughters by his first wife, Anne Peyton, daughter of Sir John Peyton, 1st Baronet, of Cambridge.[6] Bacon was buried at Ryburgh in Norfolk[4] and was succeeded in the baronetcy by Edmund, a son of his seventh son.[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. "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. "ThePeerage - Sir Robert Bacon, 3rd Bt". Retrieved 21 January 2009.
5. Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. vol. I (fifth ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 3.
6. 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.
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.

Baronetage of England
Preceded by Edmund Bacon	Baronet (of Redgrave) 1649–1655	Succeeded by Edmund Bacon