Francis Noot Bacon was born and died in Bedminster, Bristol

Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...

. He was a director of Bristol City but was installed as temporary manager between October 1910 & January 1911 after the dismissal of Harry Thickett

Harry Thickett

Henry Thickett was a professional footballer who won the 1902 FA Cup final with Sheffield United and made two appearances for England in 1899. He was also in the United team which suffered arguably the biggest F A cup upset of the nineteenth century when losing to Burslem Port Vale in 1898...

. In January 1911 Sam Hollis

Sam Hollis

Sam Hollis was an English football trainer and manager.Born in Nottingham as Samuel Woodroffe Moore, he had comparatively little football experience, having previously worked in the local registry and as a landlord in a pub...

 took over for his third, and final, spell as manager.

Francis was also landlord of the Masonic Hotel in North St, Bedminster from 1897 until his death in 1917.