ROGER

See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• ROGER NORTH (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

NORTH (1653-1734)  , English lawyer and biographer, was the 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 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 Bohn'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 .