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The Hon. Dudleya North (July 1675–25 April 1712) was an English aristocrat, orientalist,
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and classical scholar.


Early life

Dudleya North was born at the house of her father Charles North, 5th Baron North (c. 1636–1691) in
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in London. Her mother Catherine was a daughter of the first
Baron Grey of Werke Baron Grey of Werke (or Warke), of Chillingham in the County of Northumberland, was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created on 11 February 1624 for Sir William Grey, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a baronet, of Chillingham i ...
and Dudleya was a granddaughter of
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(1602–1677).George Ballard">''Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain'' George Ballard
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,_''A_Synopsis_of_the_Peerage_of_England''_(1825),_J._Nichols_and_son,_p._284 She_came_of_a_more_intellectual_family_than_most_aristocratic_families_of_the_day._Her_uncle_Francis_North,_1st_Baron_Guilford.html" ;"title="Nicholas_Harris_Nicolas.html" "title="Baron_North.html" ;"title="House of Lords as Baron North">Baron Grey of Rolleston.Nicholas Harris Nicolas">Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas Sir (Nicholas) Harris Nicolas (10 March 1799 – 3 August 1848) was an English antiquary. Life The fourth son of Commander John Harris Nicolas R.N. (1758–1844) and Margaret née Blake, he was born at Dartmouth. He was the brother of Rear Ad ...
, ''A Synopsis of the Peerage of England'' (1825), J. Nichols and son, p. 284 She came of a more intellectual family than most aristocratic families of the day. Her uncle Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford">Francis North became Lord Chancellor as Lord Guilford, while other uncles were Dudley North (economist), Sir Dudley North, an economist, John North (Trinity), John North, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Roger North (17th century), Roger North, a historian. The younger of two daughters, at a young age she had a desire for learning and, unusually for the time, she was educated privately alongside her brothers by their tutors. A water colour portrait of her aged 15 from 1690 painted by Edmund Ashfield is held in the collection of the
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.


Career

A natural linguist, she quickly became fluent in
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and
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following which she began to study
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and some eastern languages. After a 'long and severe course of study' she mastered 'a competent share of knowledge in the whole circle of Oriental learning' collecting in her personal library a number of non-western language books. Other than the fact that she was devoted to her brothers and to her studies little is known of her life. While Lord North intended for her to marry apparently Dudleya was disinterested in such a prospect. preferring instead to keep to her books and her studies.


Death

She died aged 36 on 25 April 1712 at the home of her sister-in-law on
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in London of
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brought on, it was said, by her diligent studies and 'sedentary distemper'. Dudleya North was buried on 2 May 1712 in the North family vault at
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in
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.


Legacy

Her uncle Roger North had set up a parochial library at Rougham in
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and after her death he sorted out her affairs and added her books on oriental subjects and languages and her manuscripts to the collection.Lawrence B. Smith, 'William North, sixth Baron North, second Baron Grey of Rolleston, and Jacobite Earl North (1678–1734)'
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(ODNB) These are now kept in the
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at Oxford and
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.North, Dudleya (1675-1712) Orientalist and Classical Scholar
- the National Archives


References

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