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NORTH, BARONS

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 759 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
NORTH, BARONS . The English title of Lord North of her son William Henry John North (b. 2836) succeeded as 11th Kirtling was created for Edward North (c. 1496-1564), son of baron, the title now being separate from that of Guilford. Roger North, a London citizen, in 15J4; he was a successful NORTH, SIR DUDLEY (1641-1691), English economist,
lawyer, clerk of the parliament (1531) and chancellor of the court was 4th son of Dudley, 4th Lord North, who published, of augmentations (1545) His second son was Sir Thomas North besides other things, Passages relating to the Long Parliament,
(q.v.), and he was succeeded as 2nd baron by his son Roger (1S3o- 1 Gardiner's Civil War, iv. 285.
1600), a prominent courtier and soldier of Queen Elizabeth's 2 Roger North's Autobiography, ed. by A. Jessopp, 68.
of which he had himself been a member. He was born on the 16th of May 1641. In his early years he was carried off by
gipsies
  and recovered with some difficulty by his familyan incident curiously similar to that which befell
Adam
 
Smith
  in his infancy. He engaged in foreign trade, especially with Turkey, and spent a number of years at Constantinople and Smyrna. Some notices of the manners and customs of the
east
  were printed from his papers by his brother. Having returned to London with a considerable fortune, he continued to prosecute trade with the Levant. His ability and knowledge of commerce attracted the attention of the government, and he was further recommended by the influence of his brother Lord Guilford. During the Tory reaction under Charles II. he was one of the sheriffs forced on the city of London with an express view to securing verdicts for the crown in state trials. He was knighted, and was appointed a
commissioner
  of customs, afterwards of the treasury, and again of the customs. Having been elected a member of parliament under James II., " he took," says Roger North, " the place of manager for the crown in all matters of revenue." After the Revolution he was called to account for his alleged unconstitutional proceedings in his office of sheriff. He died on the 31st of December 1691.
His tract entitled Discourses upon Trade, principally directed to the cases of the
interest
 , coinage, clipping and increase of money, was published anonymously in 1691, and was edited in 1856 by J. R. M`Culloch in the Select Collection of Early English Tracts on Commerce printed by the Political
Economy
  Club of London. In this thorough-going and emphatic assertion of the free-trade doctrine against the system of prohibitions which had gained strength by the Revolution, North shows that wealth may exist independently of gold or silver, its source being human industry, applied either to the cultivation of the soil or to manufactures. It is a mistake to suppose that stagnation of trade arises from want of money; it must arise either from a glut of the home market, or from a disturbance of foreign commerce, or from diminished consumption caused by poverty. The export of money in the course of traffic, instead of diminishing, increases the national wealth, trade being only an exchange of superfluities. Nations are related to the world just in the same way as cities to the state or as families to the city. North emphasizes more than his predecessors the value of the home trade. With respect to the
interest
  of
capital
 , he maintains that it depends, like the price of any commodity, on the proportion of demand and
supply
 , and that a low rate is a result of the relative increase of
capital
 , and cannot be brought about by arbitrary regulations, as had been proposed by Sir Josiah Child and others. In arguing the question of free trade, he urges that every advantage given to one interest over another is injurious to the public. No trade is unprofitable to the public; if it were, it would be given up; when trades thrive, so does the public, of which they form a part. Prices must determine themselves, and cannot be fixed by law; and all forcible interference with them does harm instead of good. No people can become rich by state regulations,only by peace, industry, freedom and unimpeded economic activity. It will be seen how closely North's view of things approach to that embodied some eighty years later in
Adam
 
Smith
 's great
work
 . North is named by Wilhelm Roscher as one of that " great triumvirate " which in the 17th century raised the English school of economists to the foremost place in Europe, the other members of the group being Locke and Petty.


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