Bacon, Delia, an American authoress, who first broached, though she did not originate, the theory of the Baconian authorship of Shakespeare's works, a theory in favour of which she has received small support (1811‒1859).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Backhuy`sen, Ludolph * Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam