He was educated at St Paul's School and was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge on 13 June 1682, aged 17.
[1] In 1684 he succeeded to the estates of his great-uncle Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet of Catley House, Cambridgeshire (south of Linton),[2] "a large mansion",[3] where he amassed a valuable library.
She had been a ward "under his charge", and was the heir of John Bacon, a rich London merchant who had purchased land at Little Paxton, Huntingdonshire.
[5] Elizabeth's will of 1724 left her personal fortune to her step-brothers after Thomas Sclater-Bacon's death.
[7] A monument to Elizabeth, by the eminent sculptor Joseph Wilton, was erected in the church of Linton St Mary's.