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. 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

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of Compton Greenfield, Gloucestershire. 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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. 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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. North stood for Parliament at

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at the

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with

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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

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. 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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Children

Dudley North died on 4 February 1730. He had two sons, and three daughters of whom one son and one daughter predeceased him. 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,

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. The children were all raised at

by Reverend

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