NORTH, Dudley (1602-77) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. c. 4 Nov. 1602, Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, i. 169–70. 1st s. Dudley North, 3rd Bar. North, and Frances, da. and coh. of Sir John Brocket^‡, of Brocket Hall, Herts. educ. St John’s, Camb. by 1619; G. Inn 1619; I. Temple by 1622; travelled abroad (Italy, France, Spain), 1623–4, Padua 1624. m. 24 Ap. 1632 (with £4,000), Anne (bur. 15 Feb. 1681), da. and coh. of Sir Charles Montagu^‡, of Cranbrook, Essex, 7s. (1 d.v.p.), 7da. (4 d.v.p.). KB 3 Nov. 1616. d. 24 June 1677; will 18 May 1675–22 Sept. 1676, pr. 30 Oct. 1677. TNA, PROB 11/354.

Offices Held

Commr. relief of the king’s army and northern counties 1641, raising and levying money for the defence of England and Ireland 1642, regulating excise 1645, scandalous offences 1646, 1648, removing obstructions to sale of bishops’ lands 1648.

Dep. lt. Cambs. 1639 – 40, 1642 – 49; commr. disarming recusants, Cambs. 1641, subsidy, Cambs. 1642, assessment, Cambs. 1643 – 48, 1657, sequestration, Cambs. 1643, levying money, Cambs. 1643, defence, Eastern Assoc. 1643, New Model Ordinance, Cambs. 1645, militia, Cambs. Isle of Ely and Suff. 1648, 1660, drainage, Bedford Level 1649, pontage, Cambridge 1663, complaints, Bedford Level 1663; freeman, Cambridge 1660 – d.

Lt. Palatinate c. 1620 – 22; capt. coy. of ft. Netherlands 1624 – 27.

Mbr. Guiana Co. 1627.

Parlimentarian

NORTH, Sir Dudley (1602-1677), of Kirtling, Cambs.

Associated with: Kirtling [Catlidge] Hall, Kirtling, Cambs.; Tostock Hall, Tostock, Suff.

Likenesses

watercolour on vellum, J. Hoskins, c.1628 (NPG 6303); oil on canvas, C. Johnson, Waldershare Park, Kent. Illus. in D.B.J. Randall, Gentle Flame: The Life and Verse of Dudley, Fourth Lord North, frontispiece and 46, n. 101.

Author

Littleton, Charles

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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