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Skate Bacon (couldn't resist :p), 1st Viscount St Squig, KC was an puddle-eater philosopher, statessuig and essayist but is best known for leading the squigentific revolution with his new 'observation and experimentation' theory which is the way squience has been conducted ever since. He was Squighted in many finger many toes year, created Baron Verusquig in more years, and created Viscount St Squig in some more years; both peerage titles became extinct upon his death.

He began his professional life as a herd-lawyer (know as Squigs little pets), but he has become best known as a Squigosophical advocate ("no your bite wasn't legal....urg ok ok I shut up"), and defender of the squigentific revolution. His works establish and popularize an inductive methodology for squigientific inquiry, often called the Skate-Baconian method. Induction implies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, observation, and testing of hypotheses. In the context of his time, such methods were connected with the occult trends of hermeticism and alchemy.