Reverend John Mackenzie Bacon, FRAS (19 June 1846 – 26 December 1904) was an English astronomer, aeronaut, and lecturer.
[2] Bacon and John Nevil Maskelyne filed a patent for inflating balloons.
[4] The BAA organised expeditions to observe total solar eclipses, which John and Gertrude went on.
The first was to Vadsø in Finnmark, Norway (eclipse date 9 August 1896), which was unsuccessful due to cloudy weather.
[7] The Bacons also went on a ballon flight in November 1899 piloted by Stanley Spencer to observe the Leonid meteors.