Sir Edmund Castell Bacon, KG, OBE, TD, RA

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Lt. Col. Sir Edmund Castell Bacon, KG, OBE, TD, RA (TA), 14th Baronet Premier Baronet of England, succeeded his father 1947. Educated at Eton & Trinity College, Cambridge.

13th Baronet of Regdrave and 14th Baronet of Mildenhall; Hon. DCL, University of East Anglia; Lt. Col. late Commanding 55th (Suffolk Yeo.) Anti-Tank-Regt. RA (TA); Hon. Col. RA (TA) 1947-67; Lord Lt. and a JP for Norfolk; a K. St. J.; a Director of Lloyds Bank Ltd. 1949-73; Pro-Chancellor of University of East Anglia 1964-73; High Steward of Norwich Cathedral since 1956, and of Great Yarmouth since 1968; a Church Commissioner 1955-63; Chairman of British Sugar Corporation 1957-68; Chairman of Economic Development Committee for Agriculture 1966-71; North West Europe 1944 (despatches, OBE); OBE (Mil.) 1945, KBE (Civil) 1965, KG 1970.

Clubs: Carlton and Pratt's.

Edmund married Priscilla Dora Ponsonby on 15 Jan 1936 in Hunsdon, Hertfordshire. Priscilla (daughter of Sir Charles Edward Ponsonby, TD and The Hon. Winifred Marian Gibbs, JP) was born in 1913 in 9 Portman Square, St. Marylebone, London; died in 2000. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lavinia Winifred Bacon