Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), son of Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne (Cooke) Bacon, was an English philosopher, statesman, ...
... he was the real writer of the Shakespearean plays (one of the controversies in English literature, the "Baconian controversy") 3; but rather Francis Bacon is known as a philosopher ...