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British baronet (born 1953)
Sir Nicholas Hickman Ponsonby Bacon, 14th and 15th Baronet , KCVO , OBE , DL landowner , businessman and philanthropist. Sir Nicholas is also the Premier Baronet of England .
Life and education [ edit ]
Bacon is the only son of Sir Edmund Bacon, 13th and 14th Baronet , and Priscilla Dora Ponsonby, daughter of Colonel Sir Charles Ponsonby, 1st Baronet .
Educated at Eton College before going up to Dundee University where he graduated as MA called to the Bar at Gray's Inn . Between 1966 and 1969 he served as Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II .
Married to Susan Henrietta Dinnis in 1981, Sir Nicholas and Lady Bacon have four sons:
Henry Hickman Bacon (b. 23 April 1984)
Edmund Bacon (b. 1986)
Nathaniel Bacon (b. 1989)
Thomas Castell Bacon (b. 1992)
Bacon inherited significant landholdings in Norfolk .
Seated at the 18th century Raveningham Hall , he and his wife, Lady Bacon, share an interest in continuing the restoration of the extensive gardens, which were renovated by his late mother, Priscilla.[1]
Appointments [ edit ]
KCVO star
Bacon was President of the Royal Horticultural Society (2013 to 2020) and a Council Member of the National Trust , and in 1998 was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk.
In 2005, he was appointed to the Prince's Council of the Duchy of Cornwall and served as High Sheriff of Norfolk . In 2006 he succeeded the 3rd Earl Peel, GCVO , as Lord Warden of the Stannaries and Chairman of the Prince's Council.[2]
He is also President of the Norfolk Beekeepers Association, which is his greatest passion.[3]
Bacon was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to the community in Norfolk[4] Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the 2023 New Year Honours for his services as Lord Warden of the Stannaries.[5] Extra Equerry to King Charles III .[6]
Baronetcy [ edit ]
Bacon inherited the Bacon baronetcy upon the death of his father in 1982.
As the Bacon baronetcy , of Redgrave in the County of Suffolk, is the oldest extant English baronetcy (created in the Baronetage of England on 22 May 1611), Sir Nicholas is considered the Premier Baronet of England.
Bacon is both the 14th and 15th holder of the Bacon baronetcies since the 8th Bacon Baronet of Mildenhall in the County of Suffolk (created in the Baronetage of England on 29 July 1627), additionally succeeded as the 7th Bacon Baronet of Redgrave in 1755 when his third cousin, the 6th Bacon Baronet of Redgrave, died without heirs.[7]
Bacon arms
Ancestry [ edit ]
Ancestors of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 14th Baronet
16. Nicholas Bacon 8. Sir Henry Bacon, 10th Baronet of Redgrave 17. Jane Bowker 4. Sir Nicholas Bacon, 12th Baronet of Redgrave 18. Sir Thomas Beckett, 3rd Baronet of Leeds 9. Elizabeth Beckett 19. Caroline Beckett 2. Sir Edmund Bacon, 13th Baronet of Redgrave 20. The Hon. Alexander Leslie-Melville 10. Alexander Samuel Leslie-Melville 21. Charlotte Smith 5. Constance Alice Leslie-Melville 22. Charles Brodrick, 6th Viscount Midleton 11. The Hon. Albina Brodrick 23. The Hon. Emma Stapleton 1. Sir Nicholas Bacon, 14th Baronet of Redgrave 24. Charles Ponsonby, 2nd Baron de Mauley 12. The Hon. Edwin Ponsonby 25. Lady Maria Ponsonby 6. Sir Charles Ponsonby, 1st Baronet 26. Octavius Edward Coope 13. Emily Dora Coope 27. Emily Fulcher 3. Priscilla Dora Ponsonby 28. Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham 14. Herbert Gibbs, 1st Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon 29. Louisa Anne Adams 7. The Hon. Winifred Marian Gibbs 30. Richard Durrant 15. Anna Maria Durrant 31. Charlotte Still Dashwood
References [ edit ]
^ www.norfolkbeekeepers.org.uk
^ "No. 59282" . The London Gazette
^ "No. 63918" . The London Gazette
^ "Court Circular: 17 March 2023" . The Royal Family .
^ www.burkespeerage.com
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