Nathaniel Bacon

Nathaniel Bacon may refer to:

  • Sir Nathaniel Bacon (died 1622), lawyer and MP for Norfolk, half-brother of Francis Bacon
  • Nathaniel Bacon (painter) (1585–1627), landowner and painter, nephew of Francis Bacon
  • Nathaniel Bacon (painter, fl. 1640)
  • Nathaniel Bacon (politician) (1593–1660), Member of Parliament representing Cambridge University and Ipswich
  • Nathaniel Bacon (colonist) (c. 1640s–1676), member of the Virginia Colony, instigator of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676
  • Nathaniel Bacon (Jesuit) (1598–1676), Secretary of the Society of Jesus, 1674–1676
  • Nathaniel Bacon (Michigan jurist) (1802–1869), member of the Michigan Supreme Court, 1855–1857

Famous quotes containing the words nathaniel and/or bacon:

    “The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.”
    —Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933)