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Sir Francis Bacon awaiting an audience with George Villiers, 1st. Duke of Buckingham. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, 1561 – 1626. English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author, he served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. From The Century Edition of Cassell's History of England, published 1901.