Francis Bacon, Lord St Albans

Abstract

Francis Bacon was born in London, the son of Queen Elizabeth’s Lord Keeper of the Great Seal (a high office of state). In 1573, at the age of twelve, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge; he left without a degree after two years, and took up the study of law at Gray’s Inn. He qualified as a barrister in 1582, and two years later was elected to Parliament, in which he was to remain, representing various constituencies, for thirty-four years. He rose in the hierarchy of Gray’s Inn, and was of a writer.