Biography of Nathaniel Bacon 1585-1627

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Nathaniel Bacon 1585-1627 is in Painters.

Around 1564 [his father] Nicholas Bacon 1st Baronet (age 24) and [his mother] Anne Butts (age 16) were married.

In 1585 Nathaniel Bacon was born to Nicholas Bacon 1st Baronet (age 45) and Anne Butts (age 37).

In 1609 William Cornwallis (age 60) and [his future wife] Jane Meautys (age 28) were married. The difference in their ages was 32 years.

May 1611 Creation of Baronets

                    On 22 May 1611 the first Baronets were created by James I (age 44)
                
                    Walter Aston 1st Baronet (age 27) was created 1st Baronet Aston of Tixall.
                
                    [his father] Nicolas Bacon (age 71) was created 1st Baronet Bacon of Redgrave in Suffolk. The Premier Baronet being the first creation.                

                    Henry Belasyse 1st Baronet (age 55) was created 1st Baronet Belasyse of Newborough.                

                    George Booth (age 54) was created 1st Baronet Booth of Dunham Massey. Katherine Anderson Lady Dunham Massey (age 43) by marriage Lady Booth of Dunham Massey.                

                    Edward Carr (age 68) was created 1st Baronet Carr of Sleaford in Lincolnshire. Anne Dyer Lady Carr by marriage Lady Carr of Sleaford in Lincolnshire.                

                    Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet (age 23) was created 1st Baronet Clifton of Clifton in Nottinghamshire.                

                    Moyle Finch 1st Baronet (age 61) was created 1st Baronet Finch of Eastwell in Kent. Elizabeth Heneage 1st Countess Winchelsea (age 54) by marriage Lady Finch of Eastwell in Kent.                

                    Thomas Gerard 1st Baronet (age 51) was created 1st Baronet Gerard of Bryn in Lancashire.
                
                    Henry Hobart 1st Baronet (age 51) was created 1st Baronet Hobart of Intwood in Norfolk. Dorothy Bell Lady Hobart by marriage Lady Hobart of Intwood in Norfolk.                

                    Richard Hoghton 1st Baronet (age 40) was created 1st Baronet Hoghton of Hoghton Tower in Lancashire.
                
                    Phillip Knyvet (age 41) was created 1st Baronet Knyvet of Buckenham in Norfolk.                

                    Thomas Mansel 1st Baronet (age 55) was created 1st Baronet Mansel of Margam.                

                    Thomas Pelham 1st Baronet (age 71) was created 1st Baronet Pelham of Laughton. Mary Walsingham Baroness Pelham Laughton (age 47) by marriage Lady Pelham of Laughton.
                
                    John Peyton 1st Baronet (age 50) was created 1st Baronet Peyton of Isleham.                

                    George Savile 1st Baronet (age 61) was created 1st Baronet Savile of Thornhill.                

                    John Shelley of Mitchelgrove 1st Baronet was created 1st Baronet Shelley of Mitchelgrove in Sussex.
                
                    George Shirley 1st Baronet (age 52) was created 1st Baronet Shirley of Staunton Harold in Leicestershire. Dorothy Wroughton Lady Shirley (age 41) by marriage Lady Shirley of Staunton Harold in Leicestershire.                

                    John St John (age 25) was created 1st Baronet St John Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire.                

                    John Stradling 1st Baronet (age 48) was created 1st Baronet Stradling of St Donats in Glamorganshire.
                
                    Thomas Temple 1st Baronet (age 44) was created 1st Baronet Temple of Stowe.                

                    Lionel Tollemache 1st Baronet (age 48) was created 1st Baronet Talmash of Helmingham in Suffolk.

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On 01 May 1614 Nathaniel Bacon (age 29) and Jane Meautys (age 33) were married.

On 19 Sep 1616 [his mother] Anne Butts (age 68) died.

On 22 Nov 1624 [his father] Nicholas Bacon 1st Baronet (age 84) died in Culford, Suffolk [Map]. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Redgrave. At the east end of the north aisle is a chest tomb in black and white marble with the effigies of Sir Nicholas Bacon his wife Anne Butts made in 1616 by Nicholas Stone (age 37). His son [his brother] Edmund Bacon 2nd Baronet (age 54) succeeded 2nd Baronet Bacon of Redgrave in Suffolk.

PAINTINGS/BACON/Cookmaid.jpg Around 1625. Nathaniel Bacon (age 40). Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit.

PAINTINGS/BACON/Self-Portrait.jpg Around 1625. Nathaniel Bacon (age 40). Cookmaid with Still Life of Vegetables and Fruit.

In 1627 Nathaniel Bacon (age 42) died.

On 08 May 1659 [his former wife] Jane Meautys (age 78) died.

St Mary's Church, Culford [Map]. The most remarkable and memorable feature of the interior is the memorial in the chancel. It is to Lady Jane Bacon, the wife of the artist Nathaniel Bacon, whose own striking memorial is under the tower now. She sits in a central position with an infant seated on her lap, in what surely must be a conscious echo of the Blessed Virgin and Christchild. This is remarkable, because it dates from the later years of the Puritan Commonwealth, in 1656. She is flanked by her grandchildren who look unnervingly like a set of chess pieces. Sir Nicholas Bacon, their father, her son, died two years after her and lies uncomfortably at her feet. Pevsner thought it sincere, not at all aristocratic.

It is not the largest memorial here. That accolade is reserved for the large, elegant memorial to the Countess of Cadogan, who died in 1907. The north aisle was constructed to accommodate it. Railed in, beneath a dramatic arch with figures of Faith, Hope and Charity, it has echoes of the memorial at Holkham to the Countess of Leicester. The sculptor was Countess Feodora Gleichen..