 He was seen as an attached servant to Sir Robert Walpole and was duly rewarded.He held a grant of some lighthouses worth £500 a year for a term of years, and in 1733 was shown to have a grant of crown lands at Chatham while his brother held a post in the customs.Bacon was returned unopposed again at the 1734 British general election, In 1737, he spoke against Sir John Barnard's scheme for converting the national debt.