Thomas Bacon (academic)

Thomas Bacon MA D.D. was the fifteenth master of Gonville Hall, Cambridge (later Gonville and Caius College) from 1552. In 1521 he was Principal of Physwick Hostel, Caius^[1]

Offices Held

Academic offices
Preceded by John Styrmin	Master of Gonville Hall , Cambridge 1552-1559	Succeeded by John Caius
Religious titles
Preceded by unknown	Canon of Ely 1544-1559	Succeeded by unknown

Masters of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Gonville Hall	John Colton (1349) William Rougham (1360) Richard Pulham (1393) William Somersham (1412) John Rickingale (1416) Thomas Attwood (1426) Thomas Boleyn (1454) Edmund Sheriffe (1472) Henry Costessey (1475) John Barly (1483) Edmund Stubb (1504) William Buckenham (1513) John Skipp (1536) John Styrmin (1540) Thomas Bacon (1552)

Gonville and Caius College	John Caius (1559) Thomas Legge (1573) William Branthwaite (1607) John Gostlin (1619) Thomas Batchcroft (1626, 1660) William Dell (1649) Robert Brady (1660) James Halman (1700) John Ellys (1703) Thomas Gooch (1716) James Burrough (1754) John Smith (1764) Richard Fisher (1795) Martin Davy (1803) Benedict Chapman (1839) Edwin Guest (1852) Norman Macleod Ferrers (1880) Ernest Stewart Roberts (1903) Hugh Kerr Anderson (1912) John Forbes Cameron (1928) James Chadwick (1948) Nevill Francis Mott (1959) Joseph Needham (1966) Henry William Rawson Wade (1976) Peter Gray (1988) Neil McKendrick (1996) Christopher Hum (2006) Alan Fersht (2012)