Such a feat was also attributed to Roger Bacon.

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.

Attacks upon the monopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of Francis Bacon by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment before the Lords, the first of its kind which was not officially sanctioned by the King in the form of a bill of attainder since 1459.

" The word " euthanasia " was first used in a medical context by Francis Bacon in the 17th century, to refer to an easy, painless, happy death, during which it was a " physician's responsibility to alleviate the ' physical sufferings ' of the body.

In fact, Elizabeth believed that faith was personal and did not wish, as Francis Bacon put it, to " make windows into men's hearts and secret thoughts ".

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, Kt., KC ( 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626 ) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author.

Bacon was born on 22 January 1561 at York House near the Strand in London, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne ( Cooke ) Bacon, the daughter of noted humanist Anthony Cooke.

Biographers believe that Bacon was educated at home in his early years owing to poor health ( which plagued him throughout his life ), receiving tuition from John Walsall, a graduate of Oxford with a strong leaning towards Puritanism.

When the Attorney-Generalship fell vacant in 1594, Lord Essex's influence was not enough to secure Bacon that office.

In 1598 Bacon was arrested for debt.

With others, Bacon was appointed to investigate the charges against Essex, his former friend and benefactor.

Bacon was subsequently a part of the legal team headed by Attorney General Sir Edward Coke at Essex's treason trial.

After the execution, the Queen ordered Bacon to write the official government account of the trial, which was later published as A DECLARATION of the Practices and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert late Earle of Essex and his Complices, against her Majestie and her Kingdoms ... after Bacon's first draft was heavily edited by the Queen and her ministers.

According to his personal secretary and chaplain, William Rawley, as a judge Bacon was always tender-hearted, " looking upon the examples with the eye of severity, but upon the person with the eye of pity and compassion ".

In 1613, Bacon was finally appointed attorney general, after advising the king to shuffle judicial appointments.

Bacon continued to use his influence with the king to mediate between the throne and Parliament and in this capacity he was further elevated in the same peerage, as Viscount St Alban, on 27 January 1621.

There seems little doubt that Bacon had accepted gifts from litigants, but this was an accepted custom of the time and not necessarily evidence of deeply corrupt behaviour.

Bacon has been accused of servility, of dissimulation, of various base motives, and their filthy brood of base actions, all unworthy of his high birth, and incompatible with his great wisdom, and the estimation in which he was held by the noblest spirits of the age.

When he was 36, Bacon engaged in the courtship of Elizabeth Hatton, a young widow of 20.

When Bacon was appointed Lord Chancellor, " by special Warrant of the King ", Lady Bacon was given precedence over all other Court ladies.

Shortly afterwards, Bacon was knighted.

* Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ), knighted English philosopher, statesman and author

It was purportedly written in 1603 by Philip, Lord Chandos to Francis Bacon.

The first Queen's Counsel Extraordinary was Sir Francis Bacon, who was given a patent giving him precedence at the Bar in 1597, and formally styled King's Counsel in 1603.

On 12 July 1618 the king created Bacon Baron Verulam, of Verulam, in the Peerage of England.

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 Premier Baronet is Sir Nicholas Bacon, 14th Baronet of Redgrave created in 1611.

The current holder of the title is Sir Nicholas Bacon, 14th Baronet, whose title was created by King James I in 1611.

Along with Francis Bacon, he argued for natural law, created by the King's authority, not by any individual judge.

In 1958, Roger Bacon created high-performance carbon fibers at the Union Carbide Parma Technical Center, now GrafTech International Holdings, Inc., located outside of Cleveland, Ohio.

Bacon created his own Mother within Lightfoot, using her as a filler for the lack of a maternal figure in his childhood.

* Freemasonry was created by Francis Bacon, Oliver Cromwell, or the Stuart pretenders to the British Crown.

* January 27-Sir Francis Bacon is created Viscount St Alban.

In 2000, Sorsogon City was created from the merging of the municipalities of Bacon and Sorsogon.

Although strongly identified as an altarpiece form, triptychs outside that context have been created, some of the best-known examples being works by Hieronymus Bosch, Max Beckmann, and Francis Bacon.

It was firstly created for the English philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon ( who was later created Viscount St Albans ), and secondly created for James Grimston, 3rd Viscount Grimston ( whose viscountcy was in the Peerage of Ireland ).

Bacon started his work with the Linux community when he created the Linux UK website.

The Prince Consort Essay was a surface printed printer's sample stamp created in 1850 as an example of the surface printed stamps that Henry Archer proposed to print and perforate under contract with the British government at a lower price than the current printing firm of Perkins Bacon.

The merged municipalities of Bacon and Sorsogon which created the city have their own long histories from Pre-Hispanic Era to present.

* Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave ( c. 1540 – 1624 ), his son, the first man created a baronet

There have been three baronetcies created for members of the Bacon family, all in the Baronetage of England.

The Bacon Baronetcy, of Redgrave in the County of Suffolk, was created in the Baronetage of England on 22 May 1611 for Nicholas Bacon, Member of Parliament for Beverley and Suffolk, and the eldest son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, a prominent Elizabethan politician.

Bacon was the first person to be created a baronet.

Bacon's second son Butts Bacon was created a baronet, of Mildenhall, in his own right in 1627 ( see below ).