[2] However others, including Daphne du Maurier (in her biography of Bacon), have argued there is no substantive evidence to support claims of involvement with the Rosicrucians.
[3] Historian Dame Frances Yates[4] does not make the claim that Bacon was a Rosicrucian, but presents evidence that he was nevertheless involved in some of the more closed intellectual movements of his day.
Over the next four years, Bacon would host banquets at York House that were attended by the leading men of the time, including poets, scholars, authors, scientists, lawyers, diplomats, and foreign dignitaries.
[19][20][21][22] Basil Montagu, a biographer of Bacon, states in his "Essays and Selections": Of his funeral no account can be found, nor is there any trace of the scite of the house where he died.
[23] Beginning early in the 20th century in the United States, a number of Ascended Master Teachings organizations[24][25][26][27] began making the claim that Francis Bacon had never died.