Dudley, Lord North
Dudley North, 4th Baron North, Order of the Bath, KB (160224 June 1677) of Kirtling Tower, Cambridgeshire was an English politician, who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1660. Life North was the elder son of Dudley North, 3rd Baron North, and his wife Frances Brockett, daughter of John Brocket (died 1598), Sir John Brocket of Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire. In 1616 he was created a Knight of the Bath. He was admitted to St John's College, Cambridge, in 1619 and to Gray's Inn in August 1619. In 1620 he joined the volunteer regiment for the relief of the Electoral Palatinate and served in Holland during the Dutch–Portuguese War. He travelled in Italy, France and Spain. In 1628 he was elected member of parliament for Horsham (UK Parliament constituency), Horsham and sat until 1629, when Charles I of England decided to Personal Rule, rule without parliament for eleven years.
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