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انثوني باكون

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Anthony Bacon (c. 4 January 1717 – 21 January 1786) was an English-born merchant and industrialist who was significantly responsible for the emergence of Merthyr Tydfil as the iron-smelting centre of Britain.
Bacon was born at St Bees near Whitehaven in Cumberland the son of William Bacon, a ship's captain trading in coal from that port to Ireland.
The family were said to be descended from Sir Nicholas Bacon (1540 - 1624); however, since very little is known about his ancestry and upbringing, the connection may be spurious or illegitimate. Nicholas Bacon was Member of Parliament for Beverley (1563-1567) and Suffolk (1572-1583) (as one of the two knights representing the county) and ancestor of the Bacon Baronets. Sir Nicholas Bacon was the eldest (half) brother of Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Albans and Baron Verulam, and the eldest son of Nicholas Bacon (1509 - 1579), a prominent Elizabethan politician.
Early life

Following the death of both his parents he went to Maryland to live with his maternal uncles, who were tobacco merchants there. He was trained as a merchant and mariner, expanding his trade to include Virginia and the import of Spanishwine. During the Seven Years War he became a government contractor for shipping and victualling in partnership with William Biggin, a London merchant, also from Whitehaven