[2] He was admitted a fellow-commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1704–5, but seems not to have taken a degree until 1734, when he proceeded Master of Arts.
[1] In 1743 Bacon was presented by the University of Cambridge, in whose gift it then was, in consequence of the disability of the proper patron, Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk, to the rectory of Newbold Verdon.
He then suffered a breakdown, but was permitted to retain the rectory till his death, which happened at Chelsea, 7 April 1749.
A "note" by Thomas Martyn, botany professor at Cambridge, records the circumstance that Montagu Bacon's last lodgings were in Manor Street, Chelsea, "before which he had been in Duffield's madhouse at Little Chelsea, where he was attended by his [Martyn's] father.
To which is prefixed a Dissertation upon Burlesque Poetry by the late learned and ingenious Montagu Bacon, Esq.