Thomas Bacon (politician)

Thomas Bacon (c. 1620–1697) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England in 1654 and 1660.

Bacon was the son of Nathaniel Bacon of Friston and his wife Anne Le Gros, daughter of Sir Thomas Le Gros of Crostwick, Norfolk. He was a student of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1637. He entered Gray's Inn in 1640 and was called to the bar in 1651.[1] In 1654 he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Suffolk in the First Protectorate Parliament. He was elected MP for Aldeburgh, Suffolk in 1660 for the Convention Parliament.[2]

References

  1. "Bacon, Thomas (BCN640N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. History of Parliament Online - Bacon, Thomas
Preceded by
Jacob Caley
Francis Brewster
Robert Dunkon
John Clark
Edward Plumstead
MP for Suffolk
1654-1655
With: Sir William Spring
Sir Thomas Barnardiston
Sir T Bedingfield
William Bloys
John Gurdon
William Gibbes
John Brandling
Alexander Bence
John Sicklemore
Succeeded by
Sir Thomas Barnardiston
Henry Felton
Henry North
Edmund Harvey
Edward Le Neve
John Sicklemore
William Bloys
William Gibbes
Robert Brewster
Daniel Wall
Preceded by
Laurence Oxburgh
John Bence
MP for Aldeburgh
1660-1661
With: Sir Robert Brooke
Succeeded by
Sir Robert Brooke
Sir John Holland, 1st Baronet