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See also: English lawyer and biographer, was the See also: sixth son of the 4th Baron See also: North
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He acquired a See also: good practice at the See also: bar, being helped by his elder See also: brother See also: Francis, who became See also: lord chancellor and was created Baron Guilford (q.v.), and in 1684 he became See also: solicitor-general
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But the Revolution stopped his See also: advancement, and he retired to his estate of Rougham in See also: Norfolk, and increased his See also: fortune by marrying the daughter of See also: Sir Robert Gayer
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He collected books, and was constantly occupied in writing
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But he is best known for his Lives of the Norths, published after his See also: death, together with his own autobiography (see the edition in See also: Bohn's See also: Standard Library, 189o, by Jessopp), a classic authority for the See also: period
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He died at Rougham on the 1st of
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See also: March 1734, leaving a
See also: family from whom the Norths of Rougham are descended
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He is to be distinguished from See also: Roger North (1585-1652), brother of the 3rd baron, one of the captains who sailed with Raleigh in 1617, who projected the See also: plantation of See also: Guiana with an English colony
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