Buckingham and Francis Bacon

Buckingham also delivered other ways of enriching the family, all of them managed to get various monopolies and we'll talk about monopolies in just a moment. The point I'm going to make is that Buckingham, just like Cecil before him, might have enriched his family, but he also felt a keen sense of obligation to his king, to his country and to the concept of public service. He was not just there to rake in the cash. One of Buckingham's earliest mentors was Francis Bacon, a very famous and in many ways impressive man on whom I should write more.