Viewing Neil Byron Ferguson (1853-1927).Neil Byron Ferguson (1853-1927).When Neil Ferguson died on April 9, 1927, he was convinced that his life was well-spent; he had "discovered" new evidence to correct a great error and he had done so in the face of hostility and indifference by the public and even his colleagues at the bar. His triumph, however, did not occur in the courtroom. Rather, as a result of years of archival research in England, he had proved beyond a reasonable doubt -- at least in his own mind -- that Lord Bacon had written the literary works attributed by most everyone else to William Shakespeare.
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