Extract from my book Essential Islington: From Boadicea to Blair.
BACON, Sir Francis (1561-1626) (politician, poet, philosopher, ‘Renaissance Man’)
1616 James I’s Lord Chancellor, Keeper of The Great Seal of England, Solicitor and Attorney General, takes out a forty year Lease on Canonbury Tower NI. He owned a town house on the Strand and a country mansion at St Albans. An avid gardener, local legend has it he planted the mulberry tree in Canonbury Tower garden.
1618 Having seen off one old friend (Essex), Bacon helps remove another, Sir Walter Raleigh, on trumped-up charges, successfully arguing for his execution. ‘Sly’, ‘vindictive’, ‘icy-hearted’, ‘repellent’, ‘duplicitous’, ‘reptilian’ are some of the nicer descriptions of Bacon. His doctor, William Harvey (of ‘circulation of the blood’ fame, said he had ‘the eyes of a viper.
1621 Bacon becomes Lord Verulam, Viscount St Albans. Three days later, he was charged with corruption. A trained lawyer, he pleaded guilty, was banished from Court, stripped of office and fined forty thousand pounds.
1626 According to John Aubrey’s Brief Lives, Bacon left Canonbury Tower by coach with his friend Dr Witherborne, the king’s GP, to visit the Earl of Arundel in High Gate. It was winter. They discussed whether meat would preserve as well in snow as it did in salt. In the true spirit of scientific inquiry, they knocked on a cottage door to buy a chicken and asked the peasant to pluck it. Bacon stuffed the bird with snow, got very cold, went to bed and died three days later at the Arundel mansion of pneumonia.
1681 John Aubrey again: ‘Sir Harbottle Grimston (only The Goons could beat that), Master of the Rolls, on being told there is no room at St Michael’s Church, St. Albans, for his tomb, removes that of Francis Bacon who had lain there sixty years’
1886 The Francis Bacon Society moves into Canonbury Tower. In 1769 the theory was put forward that a mere ‘Stratford rustic’ could not possibly have written the plays
attributed to Shakespeare, and that Bacon was the author. The Society was formed to examine the evidence.
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Extract from my book Essential Islington: From Boadicea to Blair.
BACON, Sir Francis (1561-1626) (politician, poet, philosopher, ‘Renaissance Man’)
1616 James I’s Lord Chancellor, Keeper of The Great Seal of England, Solicitor and Attorney General, takes out a forty year Lease on Canonbury Tower NI. He owned a town house on the Strand and a country mansion at St Albans. An avid gardener, local legend has it he planted the mulberry tree in Canonbury Tower garden.
1618 Having seen off one old friend (Essex), Bacon helps remove another, Sir Walter Raleigh, on trumped-up charges, successfully arguing for his execution. ‘Sly’, ‘vindictive’, ‘icy-hearted’, ‘repellent’, ‘duplicitous’, ‘reptilian’ are some of the nicer descriptions of Bacon. His doctor, William Harvey (of ‘circulation of the blood’ fame, said he had ‘the eyes of a viper.
1621 Bacon becomes Lord Verulam, Viscount St Albans. Three days later, he was charged with corruption. A trained lawyer, he pleaded guilty, was banished from Court, stripped of office and fined forty thousand pounds.
1626 According to John Aubrey’s Brief Lives, Bacon left Canonbury Tower by coach with his friend Dr Witherborne, the king’s GP, to visit the Earl of Arundel in High Gate. It was winter. They discussed whether meat would preserve as well in snow as it did in salt. In the true spirit of scientific inquiry, they knocked on a cottage door to buy a chicken and asked the peasant to pluck it. Bacon stuffed the bird with snow, got very cold, went to bed and died three days later at the Arundel mansion of pneumonia.
1681 John Aubrey again: ‘Sir Harbottle Grimston (only The Goons could beat that), Master of the Rolls, on being told there is no room at St Michael’s Church, St. Albans, for his tomb, removes that of Francis Bacon who had lain there sixty years’
1886 The Francis Bacon Society moves into Canonbury Tower. In 1769 the theory was put forward that a mere ‘Stratford rustic’ could not possibly have written the plays
attributed to Shakespeare, and that Bacon was the author. The Society was formed to examine the evidence.