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Dudley North, 4th Baron North, KB (160224 June 1677) of
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, Cambridgeshire was an English politician, who sat in the
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at various times between 1628 and 1660.


Life

North was the elder son of
Dudley North, 3rd Baron North Dudley North, 3rd Baron North (158116 January 1666) was an English nobleman and politician. Biography North was the son of Sir John North and of Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Sir Valentine Dale. He succeeded his grandfather, Roger North, 2 ...
, and his wife Frances Brockett, daughter of Sir John Brocket of
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in
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. In 1616 he was created a
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. He was admitted to
St John's College, Cambridge St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch L ...
, in 1619 and to
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in August 1619. In 1620 he joined the volunteer regiment for the relief of the
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and served in Holland during the
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. He travelled in Italy, France and Spain. In 1628 he was elected member of parliament for
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and sat until 1629, when
Charles I of England Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of Kingdom of England, England, Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland from 27 March 1625 until Execution of Charles I, his execution in 1649. Charles was born ...
decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.History of Parliament Online – North, Sir Dudley
North was then elected, in April 1640, as MP for
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in the
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. He was re-elected to the seat in November 1640, in the
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, and ultimately in 1660, to the Convention Parliament, after the
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. On the death of his father in January 1667 he succeeded to the title Baron North. North was an accomplished, studious man, who wrote on economic and religious subjects. Among his publications were ''Passages relating to the Long Parliament'', of which he had himself been a member, and ''Observations and Advices Oeconomical''. He also wrote poetry for private consumption. North died in 1677 and was buried at
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, Cambridgeshire, on 27 June 1677.


Family

North married Anne Montagu, daughter of Sir Charles Montagu of
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and his wife Mary Whitmore, and brother of
Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester (7 November 1642) was an English judge, politician and peer. He is mainly remembered today as the judge who sentenced Sir Walter Raleigh to death. Life He was the 3rd son of Edward Montagu of Boughton and ...
, so increasing the family fortune. They had 14 children. His eldest son,
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(c. 1636–1691), was created Baron Grey of Rolleston during his father's life and succeeded his father as 5th Baron North. His third son, Francis North, became
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as Lord Guilford. His fourth son was Sir Dudley North, the
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. His fifth son was John North (1645–1683), master of
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, and professor of
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in the university. His sixth son was Roger North, the
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and
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. One of his daughters, Mary, married Sir William Spring MP, and another, Jane Bridget, married William Henry Moss. Elizabeth, his 3rd surviving daughter married twice including as Elizabeth Wiseman; she was a noted litigant. His granddaughter
Dudleya North The Hon. Dudleya North (July 1675–25 April 1712) was an English aristocrat, orientalist, linguist and classical scholar. Early life Dudleya North was born at the house of her father Charles North, 5th Baron North (c. 1636–1691) in Leices ...
was an orientalist, linguist and classical scholar.George Ballard, ''Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain'', Oxford (1753) – Google Books p. 414
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