SirBacon.org honors the 465th Birthday, January 22nd, of Sir Francis Bacon

Sirbacon.org honors the 465th Birthday, January 22nd, of Sir Francis BaconAnnouncing: 

New book by A. Phoenix

Francis Bacon: the Secret Concealed Author of the Works Attributed to Christopher Marlowe

There are many parallels between the Marlowe & Shakespeare Works.

However, the reasons are NOT because:

    • Shakespeare was influenced by Marlowe
    • Marlowe wrote Shakespeare
    • Marlowe & Shakespeare collaborated

The reason is the Marlowe and Shakespeare Works share a common author and it’s not Marlowe or Shakespeare, it’s Francis Bacon

Read the Book here:
Francis Bacon: the Secret Concealed Author of the Works Attributed to Christopher Marlowe

Francis Bacon & the Secret Translation of Plutarch’s Lives

Book by A. Phoenix

Francis Bacon, his Literary Mask Sir Thomas North, and the Secret Translation of Plutarch’s Lives (1579), a Major Source for his Shakespeare Plays

Thomas North was a literary mask for Francis Bacon for the great masterpiece of English prose Plutarch’s Lives.

Francis Bacon, his Literary Mask Sir Thomas North, and the Secret Translation of Plutarch’s Lives (1579), a Major Source for his Shakespeare Play

Throughout Bacon’s acknowledged works he refers frequently to Plutarch and Plutarch is a critically important source for many of the Shakespeare plays. It is little known that the North and Bacon families had close and longstanding links and the relationship between Francis Bacon and Thomas North is obscured because of the Shakespeare connection. The close proximity between Plutarch’s Lives and the Shakespeare works is far greater than ever before known in that they both share a common translator and author; namely, Francis Bacon.

Read the Book here:
Francis Bacon, his Literary Mask Sir Thomas North, and the Secret Translation of Plutarch’s Lives (1579), a Major Source for his Shakespeare Plays

Announcing the Publication of Baconiana 2025

by A. Phoenix

This year’s Baconiana: The Journal of the Francis Bacon Society has been published today [November 8, 2025] and features one of our most varied collections of articles to date, with contributions from 17 writers representing numerous disciplines and with some AI-driven creations as well – making this edition at 297 pages among the largest and most diverse we have ever published. For ease of use with such a large work the contents page has some handy red hyperlinks – just click on the article you wish to read and it will take you straight there!

A big thank you to all the contributors for their excellent work and permission to publish it.

Baconiana 2025 features contributions from Simon Bailey, Dr Edi Bilimoria, Peter Dawkins, Rob Fowler, Jonathon Freeman, Lawrence Gerald, Mike Isaacs, Julie Kemp, idb & friends, Professor Martin Jarvis, Yann le Merlus, A Phoenix, E J Roberts, David Taylor, Richard Allan Wagner, Christina G. Waldman, India Wright.

Download full PDF with links:

Baconiana 2025

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Canonbury Tower Heritage Plaque Update

By Francis Bacon Society

Dear Members,

Canonbury Tower Heritage Plaque Update

Heritage England and Islington Borough Council have supported our plan for educational interpretation at Canonbury Tower. Permissions and drawings are complete; now we need to fund the plaque’s manufacture. Despite positive feedback, major heritage funding bids were unsuccessful due to limited resources.

We believe this project is valuable and seek your support to help commemorate Canonbury Tower and Francis Bacon’s legacy. We are also reaching out to local history groups and related institutions for assistance.

If you can contribute, any amount will bring us closer to creating a lasting tribute for 2026. There is no obligation—but your support will be much appreciated.

You can donate via the GoFundMe link below. (anonymously if you prefer)

https://gofund.me/e9ab5735a

Thank you for your continued support.

Much love to all.

Sally


Sally Gibbins BA (Hons)

Principal

The Francis Bacon Society est. 1886

Registered Charity No. 209426

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Shakespeare, Bohemian Rapsodist

by Allisnum2er

Does a link exist between the Droeshout portrait of Shakespeare, the ‘Chandos’ portrait of Shakespeare, and ‘Self-portrait’ by Nathaniel Bacon ? That is the question this video attempts to answer. Through a detailed analysis of ‘Self-portrait’, presented here for the first time, you will discover that, like Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Last Supper, Nathaniel Bacon’s painting hides much more than meets the eye. Get ready to dive into political and religious events of the early 17th century and to discover the reason why the Droeshout portrait could be the key to a tragic pageant which was cleverly concealed in ‘Self-portrait’, thereby revealing the identity of the Mastermind behind the mask of Shakespeare.

The Francis Bacon Society provides a platform for discussion of subjects connected with the Objects of the Society, but the Council does not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by contributors or correspondents. We welcome members of the public to pitch suitable videos they have made or will make which can be uploaded to the Francis Bacon website and/or YouTube Channel. Please contact us at francis.bacon.society@gmail.com

 

Shakespeare was written by Sir Francis Bacon

Video by Francis Bacon Society

A video presentation by Francis Bacon members Susan Mclleroy and Briony Rawle addressing via spoken word the evidence from Constance Pott, founder of the Francis Bacon Society 1886.
 
Shakespeare was written by Sir Francis Bacon
 

‘‘What is truth?’ said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer’. That was delicious! I being then about 9 years old….read that first Essay of Truth… I was thenceforward a Baconian.’ So said Constance Fearon, later Mrs Henry Pott, inspiration for the founding of the Francis Bacon Society in 1886. And when the Society became, ‘so formal and proper that it has lost all sociability’, she proceeded to found a second Bacon Society in 1905. Mrs Pott had 11 children, and in the words of one Baconiana editor: ‘she even managed to have her first born on Francis Bacon’s birthday’!

The talk encompasses a selection from Mrs Pott’s impressive output: her publication of Bacon’s Promus of Formularies and Elegancies, her books, ‘Did Francis Bacon Write Shakespeare?’, and ‘Francis Bacon and his Secret Society’, and excerpts from her private letters, papers and Baconiana articles.

 

David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

by A. Phoenix

The Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick and the Rosicrucian-Freemasonic 1769 Shakespeare Stratford Jubilee

DAVID-GARRICK.pdf

In 1767 David Garrick was at epicentre of the Shakespeare world. His circle of friends covered the social and literary spectrum, among them, the Bacon editor Thomas Birch, Secretary of the Baconian-Rosicrucian-Freemasonic Royal Society, Freemason Shakespeare editors Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, famous men of letters including the Freemason James Boswell, the philosopher Edmund Burke, Richard Boyle, third Earl of Burlington, Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, all Freemasons, and Benjamin Franklin, the most important American Freemason of his age.

The great Shakespeare Jubilee of 1769 organised by Shakespeare actor and Freemason David Garrick was the first Shakespeare Festival. It shone a light on the obscure borough of Stratford and set it on the road to fame and glory. The three-day festival was the key centre of interest of all England and marked the true beginning of the popularisation of Shakespeare throughout the whole world.

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“So Desiring You to be Good to Concealed Poets ….”

by Christina G. Waldman

August 27, 2025

Christina Waldman in her latest essay takes a critical look at how Marlovians, Oxfordians and Elizabeth Winkler all conveniently misperceived Bacon’s famous letter where he writes :

“So Desiring You to be Good to Concealed Poets ….”

I have previously written in this blog about Elizabeth Winkler’s slight of the case for Bacon in her book, Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies (“Why Did Elizabeth Winkler Not Interview Any Baconians?” https://christinagwaldman.com/2024/06/27/why-did-elizabeth-winkler-not-interview-any-baconians/). In a comment made one year ago to that post, Mark Rylance attempted to apologize for not coming out stronger as a proponent for Bacon’s contribution to Shakespeare authorship in Winkler’s book. He seemed to be including Winkler in his apology. I had hoped Winkler was sincere and would try to “bone up” on the case for Bacon.

However, I just watched her talk last December at the American University in Paris, “The Shakespeare Industry with Elizabeth Winkler,” Youtube, 12/6/24, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUafv5ryHm8. After rhetorically asking who might be the real Shakespeare, she said (beginning at 17:39):

“Was it Francis Bacon, the Elizabethan Philosopher and Statesman whose knowledge of law, philosophy, foreign languages seemed to match the knowledge in the works? In 1603 Bacon wrote a mysterious letter to a lawyer who was riding to meet the new King James I and he signed off with this wish, ‘So desiring you to be good to concealed poets ….’ So who was the concealed poet? Was it Christopher Marlowe, a playwright and government agent who disappeared in 1593 supported, uh, reportedly murdered just weeks before Shakespeare emerged? What about Edward de Vere, the eccentric 17th Century Earl of Oxford, probably the favorite candidate today …?“

(Actually, Bacon’s career spanned both Queen Elizabeth and King James’s reigns.) Read more…>>

https://christinagwaldman.com/2025/08/27/so-desiring-you-to-be-good-to-concealed-poets/

More Than 100 Contemporary Witnesses to Francis Bacon’s Authorship

by A. Phoenix

More Than 100 Contemporary Witnesses to Francis Bacon’s Authorship of the Shakespeare Poems & Plays

Witness 1: The Earl of Southampton

More_Than_100_Contemporary_Witnesses_to.pdf

Witness 1.
Francis Bacon, the Earl of Southampton, Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594), the first two works to carry the pseudonym, William Shakespeare

These writings can be classified into four categories: first, texts that Bacon wrote but not for public consumption; second, texts Bacon wrote to be circulated with his name; third, texts Bacon intended to circulate anonymously; and fourth, texts that were intended to circulate under another’s name.

[Alan Stewart with Harriet Knight, eds., The Oxford Francis Bacon: Early Writings 1584-1596 (Oxford Clarendon Press, 2012), p. xxviii]

For obvious reasons the orthodox editors and biographers of Francis Bacon and the biographers of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton have very carefully avoided placing them together even though Bacon and Southampton had a very close, intimate and complex relationship with each other from at least the late 1580s right through to the latter’s death in 1624.
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