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NORRKOPING

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 758 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town and See also:port of See also:Sweden, in the See also:district (lan) ment with many See also:airy entertainments as See also:poetry, See also:writing essays, of ' Ostergotland, 113 m. S.W. of See also:Stockholm by the See also:Malmo See also:building, making mottoes and See also:inscriptions as well as in See also:music" 2 railway. Pop. (188o) 26,735; (1900) 41,008. It occupies both He wrote A See also:Forest of Varieties (1645), a See also:miscellany of essays and See also:banks of the See also:Motala, the wide and rapid emissary of See also:lake See also:Vetter, poems, another edition of which was published in 1659 under See also:close to its outlet in the Bravik, an inlet of the Baltic. Having the See also:title of A Forest promiscuous of various Seasons' Productions. been burned by the Russians in 1719 and visited by further He died on the 16th of See also:January 1666. See also:North is described as fires in 1812, 1822 and 1826, the whole town has a See also:modern " full of spirit and See also:flame," of imperious See also:temper but of well-See also:appearance, with wide and See also:regular streets. Among the more balanced See also:judgment, See also:Lord See also:Holland declaring that " he knew no conspicuous buildings are St See also:Olaf's See also:church (erected by Gustavus See also:man less swayed with See also:passion and sooner carried with See also:reason and See also:Adolphus in 1616 and rebuilt in 1765-1767); $t Hedvig's, See also:justice." He See also:left, besides one daughter, two sons, the See also:elder of built by the See also:German See also:colony in 167o; the town See also:hall, dating from whom, See also:Sir See also:Dudley, succeeded him as 4th See also:Baron North. the beginning of the 19th See also:century; the high school (1868), and DUDLEY NORTH, 4th Baron North (1602-1677), increased technical and See also:weaving See also:schools. Norrkoping is the See also:fourth town the See also:family See also:fortune by marrying the daughter of Sir See also:Charles in See also:population and See also:industrial importance in Sweden. The falls See also:Montagu, See also:brother of the 1st See also:earl of See also:Manchester. He was an in the See also:river afford See also:motive See also:power to the See also:cloth and See also:cotton See also:mills accomplished man, of studious See also:bent, and had fourteen See also:children, (See also:spinning and weaving)—the See also:staple See also:industries—and to factories of whom the third son, See also:Francis, became lord See also:chancellor as for See also:sugar, See also:paper, See also:lithography, See also:tobacco and carpets, See also:joinery Lord See also:Guilford; the fourth was Sir Dudley North (q.v.), the See also:works and breweries.

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shipbuilding yards and economist; the fifth, See also:John (1645-1683), See also:master of Trinity, docks. See also:Fine See also:granite is quarried at Grafversfors, 72 M. N. The See also:Cambridge, and See also:professor of See also:Greek in the university; and the inlet of Bravik affords excellent See also:harbour See also:accommodation, with See also:sixth, See also:Roger (q.v.), the lawyer and historian. from 33 ft. to 172 ft. of See also:water below the See also:bridges in the town. The eldest son, Charles (d. 1691), was created Lord See also:Grey The town returns two members to the second chamber of the of Rolleston during his See also:father's See also:life, and succeeded his father Riksdag (See also:parliament). as 5th Baron North; and on the See also:death of his son, See also:William, A See also:bull of See also:Pope See also:Lucius III. shows that Norrkoping existed in 6th Lord North, without issue, in 1734, the See also:barony of North 1185. At the See also:meeting of the states in 1604 See also:Duke Charles assumed went to a See also:cousin, Francis North, 3rd baron, afterwards 1st the See also:Swedish See also:crown as Charles IX.; and not See also:long afterwards earl of Guilford. The title of Lord North is that by which the Duke John of Ostergotland introduced German craftsmen into 2nd earl of Guilford, See also:prime See also:minister from 1770 to 1782, is best Norrkoping, and thus originated its industrial activity. Under known in See also:history (see GUILFORD, BARONS AND EARLS OF). Charles XII. the town suffered not only from See also:war but from See also:George See also:Augustus, 3rd earl of Guilford (d. 1802), left three pestilence, 2700 of its inhabitants perishing in 1710-1711. daughters, and the barony of North See also:fell into See also:abeyance till 1841 After the See also:Russian invasion of 1719 the population was only when it vested in Susan, Baroness North (1797-1884), wife of 2600.

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