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{{Short description|British politician}}
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[[File:BaconArms.svg|thumb|150px|Arms of Bacon: ''Gules, on a chief argent two mullets pierced sable''<ref>Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.34</ref>]]
'''Sir Edmund Bacon, 6th Baronet''' (c. 1680 or 1686 – 30 April 1755), of [[Garboldisham]], Norfolk, was a [[Great Britain|British]] politician who sat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] between 1710 and 1741.
==Life==
Bacon was the eldest son of Sir Robert Bacon, 5th Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Chandler, daughter of Daniel Chandler.<ref name=Cokayne1>{{Citation |editor-last=Cokayne |editor-first=George Edward |year=1900 |title= Complete Baronetage volume 1 (1611–1625) |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924092524374/page/n23 | volume=1|  location=Exeter |publisher=William Pollard and Co| pages= 1| accessdate = 13 April 2019 }}</ref> He was admitted at [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]] on 5 May 1697.<ref>{{acad|id=BCN697E|name=Bacon, Edmund}}</ref> Bacon succeeded his father as [[baronet]] in 1704.<ref name = Cokayne1/>
In 1710, Bacon stood as [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Thetford (UK Parliament constituency)|Thetford]], a seat he held until 1713.  He then represented [[Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)|Norfolk]] from 1713 until 1715, and again from 1728 until 1741.<ref name=HOP2>Sedgwick, R editor. [https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/bacon-sir-edmund-1680-1755 BACON, Sir Edmund, 6th Bt. (c.1680-1755), of Garboldisham, Norfolk].
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754.1970.</ref>
On 27 November 1712, Bacon married Mary Kemp, daughter of [[Sir Robert Kemp, 3rd Baronet]] at [[Ubbeston]] in [[Suffolk]].<ref name = Cokayne1/> They had four daughters, but no sons and so with his death the [[baronetcy]] devolved to a descendant of Sir Butts Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Mildenhall, third son of [[Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave]], thus uniting both creations.<ref name = Cokayne1/>
==References==
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{{s-bef| before = [[Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet|Sir Thomas Hanmer]] <br/> [[Dudley North (MP for Thetford)|Dudley North]] }}
{{s-ttl| title  = [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Thetford (UK Parliament constituency)|Thetford]]
| with   = [[Dudley North (MP for Thetford)|Dudley North]]
| years  = [[1710 British general election|1710]]–[[1713 British general election|1713]] }}
{{s-aft| after  = [[Sir William Barker, 5th Baronet|Sir William Barker]] <br/> [[Dudley North (MP for Thetford)|Dudley North]] }}
{{s-bef| before = [[Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet|Sir John Wodehouse]] <br/> [[Sir Jacob Astley, 1st Baronet|Sir Jacob Astley]] }}
{{s-ttl| title  = [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)|Norfolk]]
| with   = [[Sir Jacob Astley, 1st Baronet|Sir Jacob Astley]]
| years  = [[1713 British general election|1713]]–[[1715 British general election|1715]] }}
{{s-aft| after  = [[Thomas de Grey (1680-1765)|Thomas de Grey]] <br/> [[Sir Jacob Astley, 1st Baronet|Sir Jacob Astley]] }}
{{s-bef| before = [[John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire|Sir John Hobart]] <br/> [[Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (fifth creation)|Sir Thomas Coke]] }}
{{s-ttl| title  = [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)|Norfolk]]
| with   = [[Harbord Harbord]] 1728–1734
| with2  = [[William Wodehouse]] 1734–1737
| with3  = [[Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet|Armine Wodehouse]] 1737–1741
| years  = 1728–[[1741 British general election|1741]] }}
{{s-aft| after  = [[Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet|Armine Wodehouse]] <br/> [[Edward Coke, Viscount Coke|Viscount Coke]] }}
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{{s-bef| before = Edmund Bacon }}
{{s-ttl| title  = [[Bacon baronets|Baronet]] <br/>'''(of Redgrave)'''
| years  = 1704–1755 }}
{{s-aft| after  = Richard Bacon }}
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