ch gained him the gold medal of the Society of Arts and his
election as A.R.A. As a consequence of this success he was engaged to
execute a bust of George III., intended for Christ Church, Oxford. He
secured the king's favour and retained it throughout life. Considerable
jealousy was entertained against him by other sculptors, and he was
commonly charged with ignorance of classic style. This charge he repelled
by the execution of a noble head of Jupiter Tonans, and many of his
emblematical figures are in perfect classical taste. He died on the 4th of
August 1799 and was buried in Whitfield's Tabernacle. His various
productions which may be studied in St Paul's cathedral, London, Christ
Church and Pembroke College, Oxford, the Abbey church, Bath, and Bristol
cathedral, give ample testimony to his powers. Perhaps his best works are
to be found among the monuments in Westminster Abbey.

See Richard Cecil, _Memoirs of John Bacon, R.A._ (London. 1801); and also
vol. i. of R. Cecil's works, ed. J. Pratt (1811).

BACON, LEONARD (1802-1881), American Congregational preacher and writer,
was born in Detroit, Michigan, on the 19th of February 1802, the son of
David Bacon (1771-1817), missionary among the Indians in Michigan and
founder of the town of Tallmadge, Ohio. The son prepared for college at the
Hartford (Conn.) grammar school, graduated at Yale in 1820 and at the
Andover Theological Seminary in 1823, and from 1825 until his death on the
24th of December 1881 was pastor of the First Church (Congregational) in
New Haven, Connecticut, occupying a pulpit which was one of the most
conspicuous in New England, and which had been rendered famous by his
predecessors, Moses Stuart and Nathaniel W. Taylor. In 1866, however,
though he was never dismissed by a council from his connexion with that
church, he gave up the active pastorate. He was, from 1826 to 1838, an
editor of the _Christian Spectator_ (New Haven); was one of the founders
(1843) of the _New Englander_ (later the _Yale Review_); founded in 1848
with Dr R. S. Storrs, Joshua Leavitt, Dr Joseph P. Thompson and Henry C.
Bowen, primarily to combat slavery extension, the _Independent_, of which
he was an editor until 1863; and was acting professor of didactic theology
in the theological department of Yale University from 1866 to 1871, and
lecturer on church polity and American church history from 1871 until his
death. Gradually, after taking up his pastorate, he gained greater