Biography of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon and His Works Francis Bacon was born in London on January 22, 1561. He was an English Renaissance statesman and philosopher. Sir Nicholas Bacon, his father, was Queen Elizabeth’s Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. Lady Anne Cooke Bacon was his father’s second wife and the daughter of humanist Sir Antony Cooke. His…

Men like Drayton, Hooker, Jonson, already wear their learning with a certain accustomed and substantial grace characteristic of the new time. But the most conspicuous example in literature of this expanding learning is Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Albans.