Dudley North, 4th Baron North K.B.

Order of the Bath

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(1602 – 24 June 1677) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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 variously between 1640 and 1660.

Life

North was the elder son of Dudley North, 3rd Baron North

Dudley North, 3rd Baron North

Dudley North, 3rd Baron North was an English nobleman.He was the son of Sir John North and of Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Sir Valentine Dale. He succeeded his grandfather, Roger North, 2nd Baron North, at the age of nineteen...

 and his wife Frances Brockett, daughter of Sir John Brockett of Brockett Hall in Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

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. He was admitted at St John's College, Cambridge

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 in 1619 and was also admitted at Gray's Inn

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 in August 1619. In 1620 he joined the volunteer regiment for the relief of the German Palatinate and served in Holland. He travelled in in Italy, France and Spain.

In April 1640, North was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Cambridgeshire

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 in the Short Parliament

Short Parliament

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. He was re-elected in November 1640 as MP for Cambridgeshire in the Long Parliament

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. In 1648 he was excluded from parliament under Pride's Purge

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In 1660, North was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Cambridge

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 in the Convention Parliament. On the death of his father in January 1667 he succeeded to the title Baron North

Baron North

Baron North, of Kirtling Tower in the County of Cambridge, is an abeyant title in the Peerage of England. It was created on 17 January 1554, for Sir Edward North. He was a successful lawyer, clerk of the Parliament and chancellor of the Court of Augmentations. The barony was created by writ, which...

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North was an accomplished man, of studious bent, and wrote on economics and religious subjects. He published, besides other things, Passages relating to the Long Parliament, of which he had himself been a member.

North died in 1677 and was buried at Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, on 27 June 1677.

Family

North married Anne Montagu daughter of Sir Charles Montagu, brother of the 1st Earl of Manchester

Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester

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, thereby increasing the family fortune. They had fourteen children. His eldest son, Charles (c. 1636–1691), was created Baron Grey of Rolleston during his father's life, and succeeded his father as 5th Baron North

Baron North

Baron North, of Kirtling Tower in the County of Cambridge, is an abeyant title in the Peerage of England. It was created on 17 January 1554, for Sir Edward North. He was a successful lawyer, clerk of the Parliament and chancellor of the Court of Augmentations. The barony was created by writ, which...

. His third son, Francis North

Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford

Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford PC KC was the third son of the 4th Baron North, and was created Baron Guilford in 1683, after becoming Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in succession to Lord Nottingham....

, became Lord Chancellor

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 as Lord Guilford. His fourth son was Sir Dudley North, the economist

Economist

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. His fifth son was John North

John North (Trinity)

John North was the fifth of fourteen children of Sir Dudley North, 4th Baron North. He was professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge from 1672 to 1674, and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1677 to 1683.John North was educated in Bury St Edmunds and entered Jesus College, Cambridge...

 (1645–1683), master of Trinity College, Cambridge

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, and professor of Greek

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 in the university. His sixth son was Roger North

Roger North (17th century)

Roger North, KC , English lawyer, biographer, and amateur musician, was the sixth son of t he fourth Baron North....

, the lawyer

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 and historian

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