The Right Honourable The Viscount St. Alban PC QC
Portrait by Pourbus the Younger, 1617
Lord High Chancellor of England
In office 7 March 1617 – 3 May 1621
Monarch	James I
Preceded by	Sir Thomas Egerton
Succeeded by	John Williams
Attorney General of England and Wales
In office 26 October 1613 – 7 March 1617
Monarch	James I
Preceded by	Sir Henry Hobart
Succeeded by	Sir Henry Yelverton
Personal details
Born	22 January 1561 The Strand, London, England
Died	9 April 1626 (aged 65) Highgate, Middlesex, England
Buried	St. Michael's Church, St. Albans
Mother	Lady Anne Bacon
Father	Sir Nicholas Bacon
Alma mater	University of Cambridge Trinity College, Cambridge University of Poitiers
Notable work	Works by Francis Bacon
Signature
Philosophy career
Notable work	Novum Organum
Era	Renaissance philosophy 17th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Empiricism
Main interests	Natural philosophy Philosophical logic
Notable ideas	List[hide] Baconian method Idola fori Idola theatri Idola specus Idola tribus Salomon's House
Influences Aristotle, Palissy, Telesio, Cicero, Michel de Montaigne, Machiavelli, Paracelsus, Plato, Roger Bacon, Biringuccio, William Gilbert
Influenced Basil Montagu, Encyclopédistes, Isaac Newton, John Locke, Robert Boyle, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Petty

Books

• History of Life and Death
• New Atlantis
• The Advancement of Learning
• The Essays of Francis Bacon
• The Great Instauration
• Valerius Terminus : Of the Interpretation of Nature
• Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature