ABSTRACT
Mr. Charles Wilkins, in his History of Merthyr Tydfil, describes Anthony Bacon as the chief agent, in the early development of the iron trade in south Wales, the first venturer in it to bring 'into operation great energy, strong influence and capital'. In the directories for 1749 he is mentioned as a merchant in Threadneedle Street; in 1759, his firm appears as 'Anthony Bacon & Comp., merchants, Gopthall Court, Throgmorton Street'; the partnership seems to have been dissolved about the year 1773. On 12 July 1760, after Bacon had started remitting the silver for the pay of the garrision, a complaint reached the Treasury Board concerning the coin supplied by him. Bacon entered Parliament under the wing of George Grenville, then First Lord of the Treasury, with whom he may have got connected through Charles Jenkinson, Secretary to the Treasury.
