Bacon [married name Foggitt], Gertrude (1874–1949), aeronaut, astronomer, and botanist, was born at 12 Park Side, Cambridge, on 19 April 1874, the second of three surviving children of John Mackenzie Bacon (1856–1904), aeronaut, astronomer, and clergyman, and his first wife, ...
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Bacon, John Mackenzie (1846–1904), astronomer and aviator, born at Lambourn Woodlands, Berkshire, on 19 June 1846, was the fourth son of John Bacon (1809–1871), vicar of Lambourn Woodlands, a friend and neighbour of Charles Kingsley and Tom Hughes, and his wife, Mary Lousada...
