BBC - History - Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) (#)

  „Francis Bacon was born into a position of great privilege, the sixth son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Keeper of the Great Seal for Elizabeth I. He studied to become a lawyer at Gray's Inn from 1579 to 1582, and it was soon apparent that he had a brilliant legal mind. Yet he remained unpopular with Elizabeth, and it was only on the accession of James I in 1603 that his career started to move in the right direction.“

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