Debrett''s Baronetage of England
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1550-1, was of Trinity College, Cambridge, and afterwards of Gray''s Inn ; appointed counsel-extraordinary to the queen, 1588, solicitor-general to king James I. 1607, attorney-general, 1613, a privy-counsellor, 1616, lord keeper, March 1616-17, and lord chancellor 1618; created baron Verulam in the same year, and viscount St. Alban''s, 20 Jan. 1620-1 : but being shortly afterwards accused of corrupt practices, and E. 2 BACON. confessing in a great measure his guilt, he DEBRETT''S .