Education
Eton College; Trinity College.
Eton College; Trinity College.
As the Bacon of Redgrave in the County of Suffolk is the oldest extant English baronetcy (created in the Baronetage of England on 22 May 1611), Sir Edmund was considered the Premier Baronet of England. Sir Edmund was born in 1903 at Raveningham Hall, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 12th Baronet and Constance Alice Leslie-Melville. He was educated at Wixenford, Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Bacon"s daughter, Sarah, is married to Sir Paul Nicholson.
Sir Edmund was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk in 1939. He commanded the 55th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment of the Royal Artillery in the Second World War and he was mentioned in despatches.
He became Honorary Colonel of the 308 (Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery between 1961 and 1967. He was appointed as a Justice of the Peace for Norfolk in 1944.
He succeeded to the family baronetcies on 1 January 1947 and he was Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk between 1949 and 1982.
Sir Edmund held several quango and business positions: chairman of Brown Sugar Corporation (1957 - 1968). Pro-Chancellor of East Anglia University (1964 - 1973). Chairman of the Agricultural North East Development Council (1966 - 1982) and director of Lloyds Bank.
Sir Edmund died on 30 September 1982, aged 79.