Baron Verulam

On the 4th of January 1617/8 he received the higher title of lord chancellor; in July of the same year he was made Baron Verulam and in

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

Bacon chose the name of Baron Verulam from the name of the old

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Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, is called by one of his contemporaries, "the eloquentest man in England."

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His course was still upward: in 1618 he was made lord high chancellor, and Baron Verulam, and the next year he was created Viscount St. Albans.

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A few months later, he was made a peer with the title of Baron Verulam.

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Francis Bacon, familiarly known as Lord Bacon, though in fact he never enjoyed that honor, his titles being Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Alban's, was second son of his father's second marriage, his mother being one of three sisters, the most eminent blue-stockings of the period, daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke, of Gidea Hall, Essex.

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A copy of Lord Bacon's "Sylva Sylvarum", for example, was lettered "Verlum's Sylva" -- because the sapient binder read on the title-page "By Baron Verulam", and it was not his business to find out that this was the title of honor which Bacon bore; so, by a compound blunder, he converted Verulam into Verlum, and gave the book to an unknown writer.

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This gentleman was not the descendant of the great Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, but head of the family whence that eminent man, a cadet of the house, sprung.

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Lord High Chancellor of England, at the same time being raised to the peerage as Baron Verulam.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

Baron Verulam himself treads a heavy gait beside this airy elfin scamper.

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923