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Francis Bacon*

Francis Bacon* 302 THEOLOGY VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN AND LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND, 1561·1626 IN "the only Christian church within the walls of old V erulam" fitly has remembrance been kept of Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban, who died on Easter Day three hundred years ago. There by his own wish he was buried: there is the famous statue of him, like that at Trinity College, Cambridge. There, and at Gorhambury, wherever else he may be forgotten, is his memory still green. Very briefly may his life be recorded. Born January 22, 1551, the son of the Lord Keeper, a shrewd adviser of Queen Elizabeth, he studied at Cambridge and Gray's Inn; sat in Parliament; was a friend of Essex, yet later was the convincing advocate who proved his treason; was knighted in the first year of James 1.; published many works on politics and science, and the Advancement of Learning, the first of his great works, in 1605; became Solicitor-General in 1607, and Attorney­ General in 1613; was all through this time growing in wealth, and favour with the King, and in intimacy with his confidential advisers, Carr (whom yet he aided to bring to justice when his crimes were http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Theology SAGE

Francis Bacon*

Hutton, W. H.
Theology , Volume 12 (72): 15 – Jun 1, 1926
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302 THEOLOGY VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN AND LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND, 1561·1626 IN "the only Christian church within the walls of old V erulam" fitly has remembrance been kept of Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban, who died on Easter Day three hundred years ago. There by his own wish he was buried: there is the famous statue of him, like that at Trinity College, Cambridge. There, and at Gorhambury, wherever else he may be forgotten, is his memory still green. Very briefly may his life be recorded. Born January 22, 1551, the son of the Lord Keeper, a shrewd adviser of Queen Elizabeth, he studied at Cambridge and Gray's Inn; sat in Parliament; was a friend of Essex, yet later was the convincing advocate who proved his treason; was knighted in the first year of James 1.; published many works on politics and science, and the Advancement of Learning, the first of his great works, in 1605; became Solicitor-General in 1607, and Attorney­ General in 1613; was all through this time growing in wealth, and favour with the King, and in intimacy with his confidential advisers, Carr (whom yet he aided to bring to justice when his crimes were

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