Dudley North (23 August 1684 – 1730) of

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, Suffolk was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the

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from 1710 to 1730. He was a cousin of

Lord North Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (13 April 17325 August 1792), better known by his courtesy title Lord North, which he used from 1752 to 1790, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782. He led Great Britain through most of the ...

, the British prime minister who later lost the

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Biography

North was the eldest and only surviving son of Sir Dudley North of Camden Place, Maiden Lane, London and his wife Anne Cann, daughter of

Sir Robert Cann, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Cann, 1st Baronet (c. 1621–1685), of Small Street, Bristol and Stoke Bishop, Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire, was an English politician. He was the son of William Cann, merchant of Bristol and Margaret, the sister of Robert Yea ...

of Compton Greenfield, Gloucestershire. His aunt was Countess Elizabeth North of Oxnead Hall. A member of the House of North, he was a grandson of Anne Montagu of

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of the

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, and Baron

Dudley North Dudley North may refer to: *Dudley North, 3rd Baron North (1581–1666), English nobleman and politician *Dudley North, 4th Baron North (1602–1677), English nobleman and politician, son of the above *Sir Dudley North (economist) (1641&ndas ...

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. His father was well known as a merchant, economist, and Tory politician and had purchased the Glemham estate shortly before his death in 1691. North was educated privately at Kensington, with ‘Mr Agier’; and was admitted at St. John’s College, Cambridge on 12 May 1701. Some time before 1708, he married, with £20,000, Katherine Yale (died 1715), daughter of

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of Plas Grono, near Wrexham. Yale gave his name to

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. Her sister married Lord James Cavendish. North stood for Parliament at

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at the

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with

Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet (24 September 1677 – 7 May 1746) was Speaker of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1714 to 1715, discharging the duties of the office with conspicuous impartiality. His second marriage was the subject o ...

to whom he was related, but was unsuccessful. He became a common councilman for Dunwich in 1710. At the

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, he was returned unopposed as Tory Member of Parliament. He was classified as one of the ‘worthy patriots’ who brought to light the mismanagements of the previous ministry. In March 1711 he was appointed to a drafting committee for a private bill on Great Yarmouth harbour, and was also chosen to draft a bill to curb wool smuggling. He became an alderman of Dunwich in 1712 and was bailiff for the year 1713 to 1714. He was returned for Thetford again at the

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again with Hanmer’s support. North was returned for Thetford again in

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and from then on voted consistently against the Government. At the

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, he transferred to Orford and was returned on the Price Devereux interest He was elected for Orford again in

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. He died on 4 February 1730.

Family

, the Prime Minister of Great Britain who led the

, was his first cousin, being descended from his uncle, Lord Chancellor

Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford, PC, KC (22 October 1637 – 5 September 1685) was the third son of Dudley North, 4th Baron North, and his wife Anne Montagu, daughter of Sir Charles Montagu of Boughton House and Mary Whitmore. He was crea ...

, of

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. His other uncle was Roger North, Solicitor General of the

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, and Attorney General of Queen

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of the

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, and his cousin was Lt. Gen.

William North, 6th Baron North William North, 6th Baron North and 2nd Baron Grey (22 December 1678 – 31 October 1734), known as Lord North and Grey, was an English soldier and Jacobite, and a peer for more than forty years. He had the right to sit in the House of Lords b ...

, who served under Prince

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Children

Dudley North had two sons, and three daughters of whom one son and one daughter predeceased him. His daughter Mary became the mother of Dudley Long North, coheir of his estate. His daughter Anne North Yale married Nicholas Herbert, son of

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and Margaret Sawyer of

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. It was her father, Sir Robert Sawyer who built and owned

. At his death, the castle and estates went to Thomas and Margaret, until her death. It then passed to Nicholas's brother,

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(died 1769). One of Dudley's son, William Dudley North Yale, also married into the

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, this time to Lady Barbara Herbert, daughter of

and his second wife,

Barbara Herbert, Countess of Pembroke Barbara Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (c.1668 – 1 August 1721) was a British court official and noble, the second wife of Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke. She became Lady of the Bedchamber for Princess Caroline of the Royal House of ...

. The children were raised at

by Reverend Isaac Milles. The North/Yale children were cousins of

Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford (13 April 1704 – 4 August 1790), of Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, styled as Lord Guilford between 1729 and 1752, was a British Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1727 ...

, and his son Lord North.

References

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Dudley Dudley ( , ) is a market town in the West Midlands, England, southeast of Wolverhampton and northwest of Birmingham. Historically part of Worcestershire, the town is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley. In the ...

1684 births 1730 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1710–1713 British MPs 1713–1715 British MPs 1715–1722 British MPs 1722–1727 British MPs 1727–1734 Yale family Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge