NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)

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NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734) , English lawyer and biographer, was the

sixth

SIXTH

son of the 4th Baron North. He acquired a good practice at the bar, being helped by his elder brother Francis, who became lord

chancellor

CHANCELLOR (M. Eng. and Anglo-Fr. canceler, chanceler, Fr. chancelier, Lat. cancellarius)

and was created Baron Guilford (q.v.), and in 1684 he became solicitor-general. But the Revolution stopped his advancement, and he retired to his estate of Rougham in Norfolk, and increased his fortune by marrying the daughter of Sir Robert Gayer. He collected books, and was constantly occupied in writing. But he is best known for his Lives of the Norths, published after his death, together with his own autobiography (see the edition in

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's Standard Library, 189o, by Jessopp), a classic authority for the period. He died at Rougham on the 1st of.

March

1734, leaving a family from whom the Norths of Rougham are descended.
He is to be distinguished from Roger North (1585-1652), brother of the 3rd baron, one of the captains who sailed with Raleigh in 1617, who projected the plantation of Guiana with an English colony.

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