James Plaisted Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance, 1816 – 1899. British judge, rose breeder and a proponent of the Baconian theory that the works usually attributed to William Shakespeare were in fact written by Francis Bacon.

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James Plaisted Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance, 1816 – 1899. British judge, rose breeder and a proponent of the Baconian theory that the works usually attributed to William Shakespeare were in fact written by Francis Bacon. From The Century Edition of Cassell's History of England, published c. 1900

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