James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance

The Right Honourable
The Lord Penzance
PC
Born12 July 1816 (1816-07-12)
London, England
Died9 December 1899(1899-12-09) (aged 83)
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Spouse
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(m. 1860)​

James Plaisted Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance, PC (12 July 1816 – 9 December 1899) was a noted British judge and rose breeder who was also 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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