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Richard Becon
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| Nationality | British |
Richard Becon or Beacon (fl.
1594), was an English administrator and Law Officer in Ireland.
Richard beacon biography
He was also a political author, best known for his pamphlet Solon his follie, on the government of Ireland.
Life
Becon was a native of Suffolk, and was educated at Cambridge. Nothing is known of his parents.
He entered St. John's College on 12 November 1567, and proceeded B.A. in 1571 and M.A. in 1575.[1] Admitted a student of Gray's Inn on 19 June 1577, he was called to the bar on 27 January 1584–5.
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He was appointed 'her majesty's attorney for the province of Munster' on 17 December 1586 at an annual salary of little more than £17. As such he was ex officio a member of the Council of the Lord President of Munster, although he and the Lord President were generally on bad terms.
He was chiefly employed in regulating crown grants of land, and two letters on the subject, dated in the one case 17 October 1587