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Alice Barnham, Viscountess St Albans [a] (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.
Sir John Underhill married Alice Barnham, daughter of Benedict Barnham and Dorothy Smith, on 20 April 1626 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Covent Garden, London, England G. 1 He died circa April 1679. 1 He was buried on 14 April 1679 at St. Gile's-in-the-Fields Church, London, England G. 1.
Dec 19, 2020 · Daughter of Benedict Barnham, MP and Dorothy Smith. Wife of Sir Francis Bacon, 1st and last Viscount St Alban's and John Underhill. Sister of Elizabeth Tuchet (Barnham), Countess of Castlehaven; Bridget Soame; Margaret Barnham and Dorothy Constable.
- May 14, 1592
- Bruce Harris Bacon, Jr.
- London, Middlesex, England, UK
Abstract. 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 ...
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.
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On May 10th, 1606, her fourteenth birthday, Francis married Alice Barnham. A description of the ceremony taken from a letter of May 11th from Dudley Carleton to John Chamberlain : Sir Francis Bacon was married yesterday to his young wench in Maribone Chapel.
