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After Lord North

This article is about Aiden Norths Great great great great grandfather. Aiden North is not very important he was just a man in the family tree but he was the most recent and is known for his college football accomplishments at Stanford university^[1]. Aiden did end up to be a failure but he did do good in college and did pull mad hard through out his life. But in the end still had many let downs through out all of it.

"Frederick North" and "Lord North" redirect here. For other uses, see Frederick North (disambiguation) and Lord North (disambiguation).

Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford,

North's reputation among historians has swung back and forth. It reached its lowest point in the late nineteenth century when he was depicted as a creature of the king and an incompetent who lost the American colonies. In the early twentieth century a revisionism emphasised his strengths in administering the Treasury, handling the House of Commons, and in defending the Church of England. Whig historian Herbert Butterfield, however, argued that his indolence was a barrier to efficient crisis management; he neglected his role in supervising the entire war effort.

Contents

• 1Early life (1732–1754)
• 2Early political career (1754–1770)
  • 2.1Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 3Prime Minister (1770–1782)
  • 3.1Appointment
  • 3.2Falklands Crisis
  • 3.3American War of Independence
  • 3.4Resignation
• 4Fox–North coalition (1783)
• 5Later life (1783–1792)
• 6Legacy
• 7Marriage and progeny
• 8Titles, styles and arms
• 9Notes
• 10References
  • 10.1Primary sources
• 11External links

Early life (1732–1754)[edit]

Lord North was born in London on 13 April 1732, at the family house at

North was descended from the 1st Earl of Sandwich and was related to Samuel Pepys and the 3rd Earl of Bute. He at times had a slightly turbulent relationship with his father Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford, yet they were very close. In his early years the family was not wealthy, though their situation improved in 1735 when his father inherited property from his cousin. Frederick's mother, Lady Lucy Montagu, died in 1734. His father remarried, but his stepmother, Elizabeth North, died in 1745, when Frederick was thirteen. One of his stepbrothers was Lord Dartmouth, who remained a close friend for life.

He was educated at

Portrait of Lord North by Pompeo Batoni (1753)

Early political career (1754–1770)[edit]

On 15 April 1754, North, then twenty-two, was elected unopposed as the Member of Parliament for the constituency of

In November 1763 he was chosen to speak for the Government concerning radical MP John Wilkes. Wilkes had made a savage attack on both the Prime Minister and the King in his newspaper The North Briton, which many thought libelous. North's motion that Wilkes be expelled from the House of Commons passed by 273 votes to 111. Wilkes' expulsion took place in his absence, as he had already fled to France following a duel.

When a government headed by the Whig magnate Lord Rockingham came to power in 1765, North left his post and served for a time as a backbench MP. He turned down an offer by Rockingham to rejoin the government, not wanting to be associated with the Whig grandees that dominated the Ministry.

He returned to office when Pitt returned to head a second government in 1766. North was appointed Joint

In December 1767, he succeeded Charles Townshend as Chancellor of the Exchequer. With the resignation of the secretary of state Henry Seymour Conway in early 1768, North became Leader of the Commons as well. He continued to serve when Pitt was succeeded by Grafton in October.

Prime Minister (1770–1782)[edit]

Further information: North ministry

In The State Tinkers (1780), James Gillray caricatured North (on his knees) and his allies as incompetent tinkers of the National Kettle. George III cries out in rapture in the rear.

Appointment[edit]

When the Duke of Grafton resigned as Prime Minister, North formed a government on 28 January 1770. His ministers and supporters tended to be known as Tories, though they were not a formal grouping and many had previously been Whigs. He took over with Great Britain in a triumphant state, following the

Britain's fortunes in the war in America had temporarily improved following the failure of a Franco-American attack on Newport and the prosecution of a Southern Strategy which saw the capture of Charleston, South Carolina and its garrison. During 1780 and 1781 the North government gained strength in the House of Commons.

In October 1781, British forces under Lord Cornwallis surrendered at the conclusion of the Siege of Yorktown, dealing a crushing blow to British morale. When the news reached North, he took it “as he would have taken a ball in his breast,” and exclaimed repeatedly "Oh God! It is all over!"

Resignation[edit]

This modern silver medallion commemorates the motion of no confidence against North on 27 February 1782 to end the American War of Independence. Subsequently, North resigned in March 1782.

North was the second British Prime Minister to be forced out of office by a

Main article: Fox–North coalition

In April 1783, North returned to power as

The new Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger, was not expected to last long and North, a vocal critic, still entertained hopes of regaining high office. In this, he was to be frustrated, as Pitt dominated the British political scene for the next twenty years, leaving both North and Fox in the political wilderness.

Later life (1783–1792)[edit]

North was an active speaker until he began to go blind in 1786. He succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Guilford on 4 August 1790 and entered the House of Lords, by which time he had entirely lost his sight. Lord Guilford died in London and was buried at All Saints' Church, Wroxton (Oxfordshire) near his family home of Wroxton Abbey. His son George North, Lord North, took over the constituency of Banbury, and in 1792 acceded to his father's title. Wroxton Abbey is now owned by Fairleigh Dickinson University, ironically an American college, and the modernised abbey serves as a location for American students to study abroad in England.

Legacy[edit]

Lord North is today predominantly remembered as the Prime Minister "who lost America".

A preserved 18th-century door on display in Edinburgh Castle shows a hangman's scaffold labelled "Lord Nord" carved by a prisoner captured during the American War of Independence.

Guilford Street in London is named after him.

Marriage and progeny[edit]

Anne Speke (before 1741 – 1797), wife of Lord North. Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)

On 20 May 1756 Lord North married Anne Speke (before 1741 – 1797), daughter of George Speke MP, of Whitelackington in Somerset. She was the sole heiress of the Devonshire estates of the Drake family of Ash, which subsequently were sold piecemeal by Lord North. By Anne he had six children:

• George Augustus North, 3rd Earl of Guilford (11 September 1757 – 20 April 1802), who married, firstly, Maria Frances Mary Hobart-Hampden (died 23 April 1794), daughter of the 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire
  , on 30 September 1785 and had issue. He married, secondly, Susan Coutts (died 24 September 1837), on 28 February 1796.
• Catherine Anne North (1760–1817), who married Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie, and had no children.
• Francis North, 4th Earl of Guilford (1761–1817)
• Lady Charlotte North (died 25 October 1849), who married Lt. Col. The Hon. John Lindsay (15 March 1762 – 6 March 1826), son of the 5th Earl of Balcarres, on 2 April 1800.
• Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766–1827)
• Lady Anne North (before 1783 – 18 January 1832), who married the
  1st Earl of Sheffield
  on 20 January 1798 and had two children

Titles, styles and arms[edit]

• The Honourable Frederick North (1732–1752)
• Lord North (1752–1754)
• Lord North MP (1754–1766)
• The Right Honourable Lord North MP (1766–1772)
• The Right Honourable Lord North KG MP (1772–1790)
• The Right Honourable Lord North KG (1790)
• The Right Honourable The Earl of Guilford KG PC (1790–1792)

Notes[edit]

1. ^ Nigel Aston, "North, Frederick, 2nd Earl of Guilford" in David Loads, ed., Readers Guide to British History (2003) pp. 960–62
2. ^ Whiteley p.1
3. ^ Tuchman, Barbara (1984). The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam. New York: Knopf, 185.
4. ^
5. ^ Whiteley p.2
6. ^ Whiteley p.6–7
7. ^ Whiteley p.12
8. ^ Whiteley p.11–14
9. ^ Whiteley p.19
10. ^ Whiteley p.24
11. ^ Whiteley p.49
12. ^ Whiteley p.51
13. ^ Whiteley p.60
14. ^ Jump up to:^{a b} Rodger p.329
15. ^ Whiteley p.329
16. ^ Hibbert p.23-62
17. ^ Hibbert p.84-140
18. ^ Dorothy Marshall, Eighteenth Century England (1974) pp 469-72
19. ^ Rodger p.343
20. ^
21. ^
22. ^ Whiteley p.215
23. ^ [1]^{[permanent dead link]}
24. ^ Whiteley Title of the Book
25. ^ Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, London, p.331, footnote 2

References[edit]

• Aston, Nigel. "North, Frederick, 2nd Earl of Guilford" in David Loads, ed., Readers Guide to British History(2003) pp 960–62; Historiography
• Butterfield, Herbert. George III, Lord North, and the People, 1779–80 (1949)
• Cannon, John. Lord North: The Noble Lord in the Blue Ribbon (1970), Short survey
• Hibbert, Christopher. King Mob: The Story of Lord George Gordon and the Riots of 1780. London, 1958.
• Rodger, N.A.M. Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649–1815, (2007)
• O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson. The Men who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (Yale UP, 2014).
• Smith, Charles Daniel. The Early Career of Lord North, the Prime Minister, (1979)
• Valentine, Alan. Lord North (1967, 2 vol.), the standard biography
• Whiteley, Peter. Lord North: The Prime Minister who lost America, (1996)

Primary sources[edit]

• Lord North, The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North from 1768 to 1783, William Bodham Donne, ed. (1867) online edition

External links[edit]

• Media related to Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford at Wikimedia Commons
• More about Lord North on the Downing Street website.

EDIT BELOW THIS LINE2 A Little Bit About Aiden North

And with his beautiful genetics generations after made a very nice young man named Aiden North. Aiden plays football ^[1]and baseball and his known for pissing off john in class all day. When Aiden grew up he became the first man to ever get rid of EEE with his epic kill streak of mosquitoes. Aiden then became a D1 baseball player and then horrifyingly blowing himself up on fourth of July. Fat f. Before his death he lived a great life with all the friends in the world due to his athletics. So being like any high school kid he partied very hard living his best life. But I cannot get into deep detail about his life because this is his relatives biography.

3=== Aidens Life after High School 2024-2050 === Ok sooo I don't really care about his relative so were gonna keep going. Aiden did die when he was 70 (that's when he blew up) But when he was alive he had 20 kids all of them dominating sports and going to the