More 19th Century Observations by those who read closely both Shakespeare and Bacon

 "That  Shakespeare possessed an altogether extraordinary knowledge of law, of medicine, of science, of philosophy, of language, of everything, in short, which would be impossible for an uneducated man, whatever his genius as a poet might be, has long seemed to me an insoluble mystery."

--Sir Lewis Morris, 1888.

"The philosophical writings of Bacon are suffused and saturated with Shakespeare's thought . . . These likenesses in thought and expression are mainly limited to those two contemporaries:.

--Gerald Massey, 1888

"Experience disposes me to think that most of the finer Shakespearean Plays may be illustrated from the works of Bacon in the same way. If this be so, it certainly suggests the exceeding probability that the universal genius, enthroned by Ben Jonson on the summit of Parnassus, and the author of the Plays were one and the same person."

--Prof. Samuel Edmund Bengough, 1890

"On the general question of the authorship of the Shakespeare Plays, I may say that I have no more  doubt that Lord Bacon was the author of all of them, and of the poetry attributed to Shakspere, than I have of the fact that Pope wrote the Essay on Man."

--Sir Joseph N. McKenna, M.P., 1891