Edmund Castell Bacon
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Sir Edmund Castell Bacon, 13th and 14th Baronet KG KBE (18 March 1903–30 September 1982) was a British landowner and businessman.
Bacon was born in 1903 at Raveningham Hall, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 12th Baronet and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. On 15 January 1936, he married Priscilla Dora Ponsonby, daughter of Sir Charles Ponsonby, 1st Baronet and they had five children. He commanded the 55th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment of the Royal Artillery in the Second World War and was mentioned in despatches.
[edit] Further reading
Lindsay, Donald, Sir Edmund (Castell) Bacon: a Norfolk life, ISBN 0-947656-01-4, Maldon: Plume, 1988
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| Preceded by: The Earl of Leicester |
Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk 1949–1978 |
Succeeded by: Sir Timothy Coleman |
| Preceded by: New post |
Pro-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia 1964–1973 |
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| Baronetage of England | ||
| Preceded by: Nicholas Bacon |
Baronet (of Redgrave) 1947–1982 |
Succeeded by: Nicholas Bacon |
| Baronet (of Mildenhall) 1947–1982 |
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