Montagu Bacon

Montagu Bacon (1688–1749) was an English scholar and critic.

Life Bacon was the second of the three sons of Nicholas Bacon, son and heir of Nicholas Bacon, of Shrubland Hall, Barham, Suffolk. Paternally he was descended from Sir Nicholas Baker; and maternally from the Earl of Sandwich. His mother was the Lady Catherine Montagu, youngest daughter of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich.

Bacon was born at Coddenham, and educated at Westminster School. He entered the Middle Temple in 1704. He was admitted a fellow-commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1704–5, but seems not to have taken a degree until 1734, when he proceeded Master of Arts.

Works Bacon told Zachary Grey that "not many English or foreign poets had escaped him". His own literary work was in a volume published after his death, Critical, Historical, and Explanatory Notes upon Hudibras, by way of Supplement to the two Editions published in the years 1744 and 1745, by Zachary Grey, LL.D. To which is prefixed a Dissertation upon Burlesque Poetry by the late learned and ingenious Montagu Bacon, Esq. And an Appendix, in which is a Translation of Part of the first Canto into Latin Doggrel, London, 1752.