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GUILFORD, BARONS AND EARLS OF

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 691 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
GUILFORD, BARONS AND EARLS OF . FRANCIS NORTH, 1st Baron
Guilford
  (16371685), was the third son of the 4th Baron North (see NORTH, BARONS), and was created Baron
Guilford
  in 1683, after becoming lord keeper in succession to Lord Nottingham. He had been an eminent lawyer, solicitor-general (1671), attorney-general (1673), and
chief
 -
justice
  of the common pleas (1675), and in 1679 was made a member of the
council
  of thirty and on its dissolution of the cabinet. He was a man of wide culture and a stanch royalist. In 1672 he married Lady Frances
Pope
 , daughter and co-heiress of the
earl
  of Downe, who inherited the Wroxton estate; and he was succeeded as 2nd baron by his son Francis (16731729), whose eldest son Francis (1704-1790), after inheriting first his father's title as 3rd baron, and then (in 1734) the barony of North from his kinsman the 6th Baron North, was in 1752 created 1st
earl
  of Guilford. His first wife was a daughter of the earl of
Halifax
 , and his son and successor Frederick was the
English
  prime minister, commonly known as Lord North, his courtesy title while the 1st earl was alive.


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