Sir Edmund Bacon, 5th Baronet

Sir Edmund Bacon, 5th Baronet (7 August 1693 – 4 October 1738), of Gillingham, Norfolk, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1738.

Early life Bacon was the eldest son of Sir Edmund Bacon, 4th Baronet of Mildenhall, and his first wife Philippa Bacon, daughter of Sir Edmund Bacon, 4th Baronet of Redgrave. He attended school in Beccles and Bishop Stortford and was admitted at Caius College, Cambridge in 1710. He was admitted at Middle Temple in 1714 and from 1716 to 1720 he was a fellow at Cambridge. In 1721, he succeeded his father to the baronetcy. He married Susan Rebow, daughter of Sir Isaac Rebow, of Colchester, on 7 November 1724, at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace.

Death and legacy Bacon died at Bath, Somerset on 4 October 1738, and was buried at Gillingham, Norfolk, two weeks later. and his only surviving son, Edmund, succeeded to the baronetcy.