Sir Edmund Bacon, 5th Baronet (7 August 1693 – 4 October 1738), of Gillingham, Norfolk, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1738.
[1] At the 1722 British general election, Bacon was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament (MP) for Thetford.
Bacon was returned unopposed again at the 1734 British general election, In 1737, he spoke against Sir John Barnard's scheme for converting the national debt.
[3] Bacon died at Bath, Somerset on 4 October 1738,[4] and was buried at Gillingham, Norfolk, two weeks later.
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