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Alice Barnham, Viscountess St Albans (14 May 1592 – 1650) was the wife of English scientific philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon.
The following sketch of the life of Alice Barnham, wife of Sir Francis Bacon, has been carefully compiled, and every endeavour has been made that dates should be correct. The entire story in Part II. has been brought to light by the discovery of the various documents found in the London Record Office, and elsewhere.
A 1557 portrait of a London merchant's wife and her two sons, showing their silk products and embroidery. The painting is one of the earliest family group portraits in British art and part of the Berger Collection gifted to the museum.
Were this a conventional biography of Alice Barnham, a study of her material world would detail the landmarks of London as she surely knew them: Whitehall in the west and the Tower in the east, symbolic of court culture and royal power; St Paul ’s Cathedral, dominant on the central skyline even without the steeple lost in 1561; the Thames ...
Brief Life History of Alice. When Alice Barnham was christened on 11 March 1581, in London St Peter le Poer with St Benet Fink, Middlesex, England, her father, Sir Martin Barnham, was 32 and her mother, Judith Calthorpe, was 22. She married Sir Robert Honeywood on 4 December 1598, in St Clement Eastcheap with St Martin Orgar, London, England, ...
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22 de out. de 2018 · Alice Barnham was the daughter of Benedict Barnham and Dorothy Smith. 1 She married, firstly, Francis Bacon, 1st and last Viscount Saint Alban, son of Sir Nicholas Bacon and Anne Cooke, on 10 May 1606 at Marylebone Chapel, Marylebone, London, England G. 1 She married, secondly, Sir John Underhill on 20 April 1626 at St. Martin-in-the ...
At the age of 45, Bacon married Alice Barnham, the 13-year-old daughter of a well-connected London alderman and MP. Bacon wrote two sonnets proclaiming his love for Alice. The first was written during his courtship and the second on his wedding day, 10 May 1606.
