His first appointment at the Temple was as junior clerk to the deputy remembrancer. Bacon rose to become the senior clerk in 1778 and the receiver in 1782, a position which he held until 1816. With these offices he combined the duties of treasurer to the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy. He obtained the leasehold interest, under the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral and chapter of St. Paul's, of the manor of Whetstone, or Friern Barnet, and when the Land Tax Redemption Act authorised them to effect a sale of their landed property, he purchased the reversion of the manor-house and the whole of their estate in the parish of Friern Barnet. He is remembered by church antiquaries for his improved edition of Ecton 's ' Thesaurus,' a detailed account of the valuations of all ecclesiastical benefices which were charged with first fruits and tenths. He  was appointed a fellow of the Society of Arts (later the Royal Society of Arts  in 1774. A description of the house and the curiosities which it contained may be found in Lysons's 'Environs of London,' ii. 22. Death He died in the manor-house 26February 1816, and was buried in a small vault on the outside of the church. His tombstone in the churchyard records his second son and his son's wife; his only daughter, Maria, was married to Sir William Johnston, of that ilk, Aberdeenshire. His edition of the Liber regis, vel thesaurus rerum ecclesiasticarum was published in 1786, and some severe comments were made at that time in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' on the omission of any mention in the title-page or the preface of the previous compilation of John Ecton. Category:1738 births Category:1816 deaths Category:British antiquarians Category:Clerks Category:English antiquarians Category:18th-century antiquarians Category:19th-century antiquarian
His first appointment at the Temple was as junior clerk to the deputy remembrancer. Bacon rose to become the senior clerk in 1778 and the receiver in 1782, a position which he held until 1816. With these offices he combined the duties of treasurer to the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy. He obtained the leasehold interest, under the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral and chapter of St. Paul's, of the manor of Whetstone, or Friern Barnet, and when the Land Tax Redemption Act authorised them to effect a sale of their landed property, he purchased the reversion of the manor-house and the whole of their estate in the parish of Friern Barnet. A description of the house and the curiosities which it contained may be found in Lysons 's ' Environs of London,' ii. 22. Bacon was appointed a fellow of the Society of Arts (later the Royal Society of Arts ) in 1774. His edition of John Ecton's Liber regis, vel thesaurus rerum ecclesiasticarum, a detailed account of the valuations of all ecclesiastical benefices which were charged with first fruits and tenths, was published in 1786. Severe comments were made at that time in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' on the omission of any mention in the title-page or the preface of the previous compilation of Ecton. Death He died in the manor-house on 26 February 1816, and was buried in a small vault on the outside of the church. His tombstone in the churchyard records his second son and his son's wife; his only daughter, Maria, was married to Sir William Johnston, of that ilk, Aberdeenshire. Category:1738 births Category:1816 deaths Category:Clerks Category:English antiquarians Category:18th-century antiquarians Category:19th-century antiquarian
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He is remembered by church antiquaries for his improved edition of Ecton
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A description of the house and the curiosities which it contained may be found in Lysons's 'Environs of London,' ii. 22.
His edition of John Ecton's Liber regis, vel thesaurus rerum ecclesiasticarum, a detailed account of the valuations of all ecclesiastical benefices which were charged with first fruits and tenths, was published in 1786. Severe comments were made at that time in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' on the omission of any mention in the title-page or the preface of the previous compilation of Ecton.
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His edition of the Liber regis, vel thesaurus rerum ecclesiasticarum was published in 1786, and some severe comments were made at that time in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' on the omission of any mention in the title-page or the preface of the previous compilation of John Ecton.
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Category:British antiquarians