At 16, in 1975, Bacon won a full scholarship to and attended the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts at Bucknell University, a state-funded five-week arts program where he studied Theatre under Dr.

Nicholas Bacon ( courtier ) | Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the court of Elizabeth I, attended Corpus Christi College in 1524.

Layton graduated from Alexandra Elementary School and attended Baron Byng High School, where his life was changed when he was introduced to such poets as Tennyson, Walter Scott, Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley ; the novelists Jane Austen and George Eliot ; the essayists Francis Bacon, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, and Jonathan Swift ; and also Shakespeare and Darwin.

Of the 4, 000 students who attended it at the time, some were to become famous: Joachim Du Bellay, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, François Rabelais, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, and Scévole de Sainte Marthe, to name but a few.

Malcolm Bradbury died at Priscilla Bacon Lodge, Colman Hospital, Norwich, attended by his wife and their two sons, Matthew and Dominic.

Bacon was born in Phillipstown, Illinois and attended the public schools there.

Born in Valleyfield, Beauharnois County, Quebec, Bacon attended Collège Marie-de-l ' Incarnation and Académie Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague in Trois-Rivières and Institut Albert-Thomas in Chicoutimi.

He attended Bacon Academy and was a school teacher from 1829 to 1833.

Sander attended Roger Bacon High School in Cincinnati, Ohio and was a letterman in football.

Wotus grew up in Colchester, Connecticut and attended Bacon Academy.

Bacon regularly attended training sessions conducted by Jose Villasin and Teofilo Velez.

* New Songs for New Voices ( 1928 ), with Clara and David Mannes, illustrator: Peggy Bacon

Political scientist James McClellan, from the University of Virginia, considered Bacon to have had " a great following " in the American colonies.

* Lisa Jardine, Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse ( Cambridge University Press, 1975 )

While at the University of Virginia, Brett Tjaden created the Oracle of Bacon, a computer program that uses information on some 800, 000 people from the Internet Movie Database ( IMDb ).

The University of Poitiers was established in 1431 and welcomed many famous thinkers ( François Rabelais ; René Descartes ; Francis Bacon ).

Leonard Bacon son prepared for college at grammar school in Hartford, Connecticut ; he graduated from Yale University in 1820 and from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1823.

* Article on Francis Bacon by Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Hamilton Pierson, Jefferson at Monticello: The Private Life of Thomas Jefferson, New York: Charles Scribner, 1862, digital text of book drawn from reminiscences of Edmund Bacon, Jefferson's overseer, University of Michigan

Torchbearer of the Revolution: The Story of Bacon ’ s Rebellion and its Leader ( Princeton University Press, 1940 )

* Washburn, Wilcomb E. The Governor and the Rebel: A History of Bacon ’ s Rebellion in Virginia ( University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1957 )

When Bacon accepted a position at Syracuse University, in New York, Floyd followed him there, where he received a Bachelor of Music in 1946.

Much of what is known of Mazama's geology comes from a study by Howel Williams of the University of California, Berkeley and later, from USGS geologist Charles R. Bacon who expanded and modified Williams ' work.

Bacon was posthumously awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa from the University of Tasmania in August 2004.

Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to William Benjamin Bacon and Emily Crosby Low, he was graduate of Harvard University, where he was a member of the A. D. Club and Delta Kappa Epsilon.

An institution that aided in the creation of Transylvania University at this time was Bacon College, named after Sir Francis Bacon, which would later be known as Kentucky University.

Seven years later, in 1858, Bacon College's charter was amended to establish Kentucky University, and moved to donated land in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.

* Everett Bacon ( 1890 – 1989 ), American football player from Wesleyan University, in College Football Hall of Fame

* Nathaniel Bacon ( politician ) ( 1593 – 1660 ), a Member of Parliament representing Cambridge University and Ipswich, grandson of Nicholas Bacon

To commemorate the seven hundredth anniversary of Roger Bacon, Erskine wrote A Pageant of the Thirteenth Century, a biographical play which was produced at Columbia University and published as a book by Columbia University Press in 1914.

Richard was baptized into the church at age ten, and at twelve he entered Bacon College in Harrodsburg, Kentucky ( Bacon was the progenitor of the University of Kentucky ).

This massive text, which Roger Bacon would later sarcastically describe as weighing as much as a horse, was unfinished at his death ; his students, William of Middleton and John of Rupella, were charged with its completion.

Bacon and sausages would be smoked in the chimney, while the tongue and hams were brined and dried.

Aubrey's vivid account, which portrays Bacon as a martyr to experimental scientific method, had him journeying to Highgate through the snow with the King's physician when he is suddenly inspired by the possibility of using the snow to preserve meat: " They were resolved they would try the experiment presently.

It is also believed by the Rosicrucian organization AMORC, that Bacon would have influenced a settlement of mystics in North America, stating that his work " The New Atlantis " inspired a colony of Rosicrucians led by Johannes Kelpius, to journey across the Atlantic Ocean in a chartered vessel called Sarah Mariah, and move on to Pennsylvania in late XVII Century.

The Rosicrucian organization AMORC claims that Francis Bacon was the " Imperator " ( leader ) of the Rosicrucian Order in both England and the European continent, and would have directed it at that time of the Renaissance.

Bacon would have difficulty shaking this on-screen image.

On July 15, 2010, it was confirmed that Bacon would appear in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class.

Francis Bacon argued the case for what would become modern science which would be based more upon real experience and experimentation, free from assumptions about metaphysics, and aimed at increasing control of nature.

People would throw names at us, and we'd connect them to Kevin Bacon.

Yet he would not avow himself a follower of Bacon, or indeed of any other teacher.

Emerson, who greatly admired Bacon, and who was sceptical of her claim originally, wrote that she would need ' enchanted instruments, nay alchemy itself, to melt into one identity these two reputations ', and retrospectively remarked that America had only two " producers " during the 1850s, " Our wild Whitman, with real inspiration but checked by titanic abdomen ; and Delia Bacon, with genius, but mad and clinging like a tortoise to English soil.

Grosseteste's work in optics was also relevant and would be continued by Roger Bacon, who often mentioned his indebtedness to him although there is no proof that the two ever met.

Dwight had a genius for recognizing able protégés — among them Lyman Beecher, Nathaniel W. Taylor, and Leonard Bacon, all of whom would become major religious leaders and theological innovators in the ante bellum decades.

Where Peckham met Bacon is not known, but it would have been at either Paris or Oxford.

The position of Master of the Rolls had opened up in April 1593, and Coke was expected to be appointed according to convention ; Bacon, therefore, would become Attorney General.

Coke was transferred from the Common Pleas to the Court of King's Bench on 25 October 1613, on the advice of Bacon, presumably because Bacon and the king felt that if he was moved from a court dedicated to protecting the rights of the people to one dedicated to the rights of the king, " his capacity for harm would be diminished ".

To keep his mental faculties at peak, he would read philosophical books by Bacon, Epictetus, or Kant.

Seeing that the Governor would not be moved, Bacon then had his men take aim at the assembled burgesses, who quickly granted Bacon his commission.

Known by Francis as ' Nanny Lightfoot ', she would continue to play a key role in the artist's development even after his exile by Captain Bacon.

In 1921-1922 Albert Bacon Fall, United States Secretary of the Interior and owner of a large ranch in Three Rivers near White Sands, promoted the idea of a national park there, an " All-Year National Park " that, unlike more northerly parks, would be usable year-round.

As Bacon would say, " vexing nature " to reveal " her " secrets, ( scientific experimentation ), rather than a mere reliance on largely historical, even anecdotal, observations of empirical phenomena, would come to be regarded as a defining characteristic of modern science, if not the very key to its success.