Person Bacon; Thomas (? 1664 - 1736) Bacon Thomas Thomas Sclater Sclater ? 1664 - 1736 British Male ? 1664 23 August 1736

Catley, Cambridgeshire (1684-1736)

Barrister Education: St Paul's School, London; Trinity College, Cambridge (admitted 1682); Gray's Inn (admitted 1694) Career: Called to the Bar (1703); Bencher of Gray's Inn (1724); MP for Bodmin (1713-1715); MP for Cambridge (1715, 1722-1736); bought several estates in Cambridgeshire and amassed a valuable library; died intestate with an estate worth £200,000 Son of Edward Sclater of Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire; married Elizabeth, sister of Peter Standley of Paxton Place, Huntingdonshire, an heiress who was in his charge, and assumed the name Bacon (c 1716); no children Fellow 15/03/1722 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; St Paul's; Sedgwick; GI References: Obituary, Gentleman's Magazine (1736), p.488. Notes: Proposed by John Bridges; James Jurin International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 ? 1664 - 23 Aug 1736 NA8393 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 4daa368a-97c9-44d5-8415-755cde1256cf