biography
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Bacon, Sir Nicholas
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| male
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| lived:
| (1510–79)
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| biography:
| English statesman, born in Drinkstone, Suffolk, E England, UK. He attained high legal offices which, as a Protestant, he lost under Mary I. Following the accession of Elizabeth I (1558), he was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and along with Cecil was given the management of Church affairs. A staunch anti-Catholic, he was an implacable enemy of Mary, Queen of Scots. His son was Francis Bacon. |
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