Preceded By Sir Edmund Bacon |
5th Baronet Bacon of Redgrave 1685 - 1704 |
Succeeded By Sir Edmund Bacon |
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Sir Robert Bacon was the son of Butts Bacon Esq. and his wife Dorothy Tracy.[1] [2] [3]
According to the Bacon pedigree, [4] Sir Robert Bacon, 3rd Baronet, had two sons with surviving issue, of whom his grandson Sir Edmund, son of his elder son Robert Bacon succeeded him first as 4th Baronet, with no issue. Whereupon the next successor was the son of Sir Robert's younger son, Butts Bacon Esq., Sir Robert Bacon, 5th Baronet Bacon of Redgrave, succeeding 12 September 1685.[1]
Sir Robert Bacon, 5th Baronet, was originally of Egmere in Norfolk [5], where his father had inherited it along with the estate of Great Ryburgh. He was born about 1651, and on 18 February 1673/4 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Chandler of London. [6]
The marriage had issue: eight children, all born before Robert Bacon succeeded to the baronetcy, soon after which his wife Elizabeth died 21 December 1686.[7] Most of the children died young. [3]
Upon succeeding to the baronetcy, Sir Robert Bacon found the Bacon estate of Redgrave to be so greatly encumbered by debts, that in 1702 he sold it to Sir John Holt, Lord Chief Justice of England, and returned to Norfolk, where he built a new house at Garboldisham. He eldest son Sir Edmund Bacon styled himself "of Garboldisham" when he succeeded as 6th Baronet on 31 January 1704. [1] [3]
At his death on 31 January 1604, Sir Robert Bacon was interred in the chancel of All Saints near Garboldisham [17] under a black marble slab reading: Under this Marble is buried the Body of Sir Robert Bacon, Bart. who departed this Life on the 31st of June, in the Year of our Lord 1704. (Note: This inscription is doubtless in error, as Sir Robert was buried in February; 31 January must be correct.) Under a matching marble was laid the body of his eldest, unmarried daughter Jane, who died 14 October 1704.
All Saints church increasingly suffered from disuse, and in 1734 license was given by the bishop to dilapidate it. The Bacon bodies were removed from the chancel and taken to Redgrave, while the marbles were transferred to the nearby church of St John the Baptist, as stated in the inscription: Here lyeth interred the Body of Mrs. Jane Bacon, the Eldest Daughter of Sir Robert Bacon, and Dame Elizabeth his Wife, (that was buried at Wighton in this County) who died on the 14 Day of October, in the Year of our Lord 1705. [18]
Lady Elizabeth Bacon was interred in an altar tomb at the church of All Saints, Wighton, Norfolk, where many of her children were baptised. The memorial inscription: Elizabetha. D'nj Robt. Bacon de Egmere Baronettj, pia conjux una cum gemino fœtu nuper edito, quem alterutra amplectens ulná secum huc tulit December 21, Ao. 1686, superstite adhuc prole natorum 4 filiarum 2. [19]
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