Alice Barnham (Political Wife) – Overview, Biography

Name:Alice Barnham
Occupation: Political Wife
Gender:Female
Birth Day: May 14,
1592
Death Date:Jun 29, 1650 (age 58)
Age: Aged 58
Country: England
Zodiac Sign:Taurus

Alice Barnham

Alice Barnham was born on May 14, 1592 in England (58 years old). Alice Barnham is a Political Wife, zodiac sign: Taurus. Nationality: England. Approx. Net Worth: Undisclosed.

Brief Info

Francis Bacon‘s wife, who often influenced his writings. Their marriage had a great deal of friction due to her infidelities and his removal of parliament because of accusations of bribery.

Trivia

She married John Underhill, who she was having an affair with while married to Bacon, only two weeks after Francis Bacon died.

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed
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As per our current Database, Alice Barnham died on Jun 29, 1650 (age 58).

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Before Fame

She inherited her mother’s extravagant tastes.

Biography

Biography Timeline

1603

After her father’s death, Alice was brought up in the family of Sir John Pakington, who was a great favourite of Queen Elizabeth, known as “Lusty Pakington” for his magnificence of living. He owned several estates that hosted royalty, including King James I of England on his way from Scotland to take possession of the English throne in 1603. The family’s favourite home was in the Strand, London.

1617

Alice Bacon and her mother Dorothy were both reported by contemporaries as having extravagant tastes, and being interested in wealth and power. However, early in the marriage, Bacon had money to spare, “pouring jewels in her lap”, and spending large sums on decorations. Power was also available, as in March 1617, along with Francis Bacon being made temporary Regent of England, a document was drawn up making Lady Bacon first lady in the land, taking precedence over all other Baronesses (it is not clear whether it was signed into law).

1620

Their marriage led to no children. In 1620, she met Mr. John Underhill, and Mr. Nicholas Bacon, gentlemen-in-waiting at York House, Strand, Bacon’s London property. She was rumoured to have had an ongoing affair with Underhill. Underhill was a cousin of the William Underhill who sold New Place to William Shakespeare in 1597.

1621

In 1621, Bacon was accused of taking bribes, heavily fined, and removed from Parliament and all offices. Lady Bacon personally pleaded with the Marquis of Buckingham for the restoration of some of Bacon’s salary and pensions, to no effect. They lost York House and left the city in 1622.

1625

Her mother was also left well off, with legacies of land and plate, and quickly remarried, to Sir John Pakington of Worcestershire, 22 November 1598. After John died in 1625, she would remarry again, two more times, to Robert Needham, earlier that year made 1st Viscount Kilmorey, and when he died in 1631, Thomas Erskine, Earl of Kellie.

In 1625, Bacon became estranged from his wife, apparently believing her of adultery with Underhill. He rewrote his will, which had been quite generous to her, leaving her lands, goods, and income, to revoke it all:

1626

Less than two weeks after Bacon’s death from pneumonia on 9 April 1626, Alice Barnham Bacon married courtier John Underhill, at the Church of St Martin in the Fields, London, 20 April 1626. Soon after, on 12 July 1626, Charles I of England knighted him at Oatlands.

1628

The Viscountess St Albans, as she still preferred to be called, spent much of her marriage in Chancery proceedings, lawsuits over property. The first year was over her former husband’s estate, trying to get what was left of Bacon’s property, without his much greater debts. She was opposed in this by Sir John Constable, her brother in law, who had held some of the estate in trust. In 1628 she filed suits for property owned by her late father. In 1631, she and her husband both filed suit against Nicholas Bacon, of Gray’s Inn, their former friend, who had married Sir John Underhill’s niece, and gotten Underhill to sign an agreement for a large dowry and extensive property, including some property of Alice that Sir John did not have rights to, and could only inherit after her death. Their petition to court stated that Bacon had tricked Underhill “who was an almost totally deaf man, and by reason of the weakness of his eyes and the infirmity in his head, could not read writings of that nature without much pain,” to sign a paper not knowing what it contained.

1639

In 1639, Viscountess St Albans and Sir John Underhill became estranged, and began to live separately. In a later lawsuit, after her death, Underhill blamed Robert Tyrrell, or Turrell, their manservant, for this alienation of affections. In her will of 1642, she left half her property to Turrell, and other property to her nephew, Stephen Soames. She was buried in the old Parish Church of Eyworth, Bedfordshire, 9 July 1650, near her mother, and her sister, Lady Dorothy Constable.

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