Richard Mackenzie Bacon (1776–1844) was an English Whig journalist, newspaper proprietor, printer, musician, teacher, and writer.
[2] Of their children: Jane Louisa died in 1808, and the September 1809 he married Margaret Gilbert Burks, the daughter of John G.
[4] From 1805 Bacon served in the Norwich Rifle Volunteers, retiring with the rank of Major when the Corps was disbanded.
[7][8] In September 1804 took over responsibility for publishing and editing the Norwich Mercury from his father,[9] and continued as both editor and a major contributor until his death in 1844.
Bacon went into partnership with John Gilbert and Francis Noverre (his brother-in-law) in the running of Taverham paper mill, .and in 1807, they installed a Fourdrinier machine.
[13] Bacon was the proprietor and projector of the Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review, which he began to publish in London in 1818, and continued to edit until 1828.