[1][2] Bacon was educated at Gonville Hall, graduating B.A.
[3] He served as a chaplain to King Henry VIII, and held the following church livings: Bacon was appointed Master of Gonville Hall in 1552.
On Queen Mary's Visitation to Cambridge in 1557, the bodies of two deceased reformers were exhumed and burned; according to Venn, the arrangements for this were made at Bacon's lodge at Gonville Hall.
Caius' character assessment of Bacon was not positive: homo certe gravis, mitis, et amabilis, sed custos inutilis et negligens (certainly a serious, gentle, and amicable man, but a useless and negligent custodian).
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