Richard Noverre Bacon

Richard Noverre Bacon (1798 – 1884)[1] was an English newspaper editor, known as a writer on agriculture.

[2] His journalism, over his years editing the Norwich Mercury which he took over from his father, promoted the current views on political economy.

[4] Bacon was an admirer of Thomas William Coke, and one of his aspiring biographers, as reported by Francis Blaikie.

His work in that direction was in vain, however: Thomas Keppel, Coke's brother-in-law, took over as official biographer, gathering in the existing materials, and his biography was then lost in manuscript.

[6] Bacon wrote his major work as a prize essay for the Royal Agricultural Society[7] in 1843: it is considered the most detailed account of agriculture in Norfolk in the 19th century.