Background
In his father"s will, Anthony Junior was left his main estate at Cyfarthfa in Glamorgan, including the ironworks, and also half of the nearby Hirwaun works.
In his father"s will, Anthony Junior was left his main estate at Cyfarthfa in Glamorgan, including the ironworks, and also half of the nearby Hirwaun works.
Anthony was the eldest of the five illegitimate children of Anthony Bacon, the prominent Welsh ironmaster, by Mary Bushby of Gloucestershire. However, upon coming of age, Anthony seems to have had little desire to continue his father"s business and he leased the Cyfarthfa ironworks to Richard Crawshay. However, he later also held lands in Berkshire.
About 1811, he rented Benham Park in Speen.
He later purchased Elcot Park in Kintbury. When he died in 1827, he was buried in the family vault at Shaw-cum-Donnington near his brother"s home at Donnington Castle House.
Anthony"s Aberaman estate later came into the possession of Crawshay Bailey. Anthony, Colonel Charles, George William, Richard Thomas, Philip, Elizabeth (who married Thomas Thornhill), Mary, Fanny, Emily (who married Thomas Peers Williams, Father of the House of Commons), Henry and William.