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GUILFORD, BARONS AND EARLS OF

GUILFORD, BARONS AND EARLS OF . See also:

FRANCIS See also:

NORTH, 1st See also:

Baron Guilford (1637—1685), was the third son of the 4th Baron North (see NORTH, BARONS), and was created Baron Guilford in 1683, after becoming See also:

lord keeper in See also:

SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession to Lord See also:

Nottingham. He had been an eminent lawyer, See also:

SOLICITOR

solicitor-See also:

general (1671), See also:

ATTORNEY (from O. Fr. atorne, a person appointed to act for another, from atourner, legal Lat. attornare, attorn, literally to turn over to another or commit business to another)

attorney-general (1673), and See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief-See also:

JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice of the See also:

COMMON

common pleas (1675), and in 1679 was made a member of the See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of See also:

THIRTY

thirty and on its See also:

DISSOLUTION (from Lat. dissolvere, to break up into parts)

dissolution of the See also:

CABINET

cabinet. He was a See also:

man of wide culture and a stanch royalist. In 1672 he married See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady Frances See also:

Pope, daughter and co-heiress of the See also:

EARL

earl of Downe, who inherited the Wroxton See also:

ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate; and he was succeeded as 2nd baron by his son Francis (1673—1729), whose eldest son Francis (1704-1790), after inheriting first his See also:

FATHER

father's See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title as 3rd baron, and then (in 1734) the See also:

BARONY

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 See also:

Halifax, and his son and successor See also:

Frederick was the See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

PRIME, PRIMER AND PRIMING

prime See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister, commonly known as Lord North, his See also:

COURTESY (O. Fr. curtesie, later courtoisie)

courtesy title while the 1st earl was alive.

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