Edward Bacon (died 1618)

Sir Edward Bacon (died 8 September 1618), of Shrubland Hall in the parish of Coddenham in Suffolk, England, was a Member of Parliament and an elder half-brother of the philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon.

He was the third son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal to Queen Elizabeth I, by his first wife Jane Fernley, a daughter of William Ferneley of Creeting St Peter in Suffolk.

[1] Like his two elder brothers he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and entered Gray's Inn for legal training.

[2] He became a Member of Parliament, representing Great Yarmouth (1576–1581) in Norfolk, Tavistock (1584) in Devon, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (1586) and the County Seat of Suffolk (1593).

During the late 1570s Bacon travelled in continental Europe (Paris, Ravenna, Padua, Vienna).