St Michael's Church - St. Albans

 

Adam Jones-Lloyd

 

Adam Jones-Lloyd

 

Adam Jones-Lloyd

Following his death in 1626, Sir Francis Bacon was buried near to his Gorhambury home in St. Michael’s church. Shortly after his friend and secretary Sir Thomas Meauty’s erected an alabaster statue.

His epitaph reads as follows (translated from Latin):

Francis Bacon

Baron of Veralum, Viscount of St. Albans

or, by more conspicuous titles

of Science the Light,  of Eloquence the Law, sat thus.

–

Who after all Natural Wisdom

And Secret of Civil Life he had unfolded,

Nature’s life fulfilled-

Let Compounds be Dissolved!

In the year of our Lord 1626, aged 66

–

Of such as man, that the memory might remain

Thomas Meautys

living his attendant, dead his Admirer

placed this Monument

Sir Francis Bacon’s statue sits in an alcove left of the alter.