Frederick North, Lord North

Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford ( born April 13, 1732 in London, † August 5, 1792 ibid ), from 1752 known under the courtesy title of Lord North, was Prime Minister of Great Britain and one of the main actors of the American independence movement.

Lord North was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Oxford. He was from 1754 to 1790 Member of Parliament and was first involved as a junior Lord of the Treasury since July 2, 1759 in Newcastle -Pitt coalition in government.

In December 1767, he was the successor of Charles Townshend as Chancellor of the Exchequer. When Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, resigned as Prime Minister, North formed on January 28, 1770 a new government. From 1778, he was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. He resigned on March 27, 1782 as Prime Minister as a result of the British defeat at the battle of Yorktown a year earlier back. Most of his reign was initially on the growing problems in the American colonies and later on the American Revolutionary War.

In April 1783 North returned as Minister of Interior in unequal coalition with the radical Whig leader Charles James Fox under the official leadership of William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, to power back. King George III., Who loathed Fox, forgave this betrayal never intend, and North was not re- engaged in the government after he was eliminated in December 1783 her.

He gave up his seat in the House in 1790, after he had gone blind. In the same year he succeeds his father as Earl of Guilford and was until his death a member of the House of Lords.

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