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was plain in her person, but had excellent good sense, and was blessed with singular mildness and placidity of temper. She was also not deficient in humour, and her conversational powers were by no means contemptible; but she, like the rest of the world, delighted in her husband's conversation, and
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said that he "never saw a more interesting scene. Lord North's spirits, good humour, wit, sense, drollery, are as perfect as ever—the unremitting attention of Lady North and his children most touching. … If ever loss of sight could be compensated, it is by so affectionate a family." Lord North died
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Fielding, J. (1790:66). Fielding's New Peerage of England, Scotland & Ireland;: Containing the Descent and Present State of Every Noble Family of the Three Kingdoms, with an Index and Their Mottos Translated... United Kingdom: John Murray, no. 32 Fleet Street, & J.
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and indolent, was contented to be a happy listener... Whether they had been in love when they married I don't know, but I am sure there never was a more happy union than theirs during the thirty-six years that it lasted. I never saw an unkind look, or heard an unkind word pass between them; his
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a year. Jokes in society mocked the couple's lack of good looks, Lady Harcourt saying that the short and plump Lord North was “beautiful in comparison to the Lady the world said he is to marry.” However, their marriage appears to have been a happy one.
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trimd with Scarlet ribbon. Miss North is not so large nor quite So red, but a very small Eye with the most impudent face you can possibly form an Idea of, joined to manners so Masculine that I was obliged frequently to recollect that line of
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I cannot close without describing to you Lady North and her daughter. She is as large as Captain Clarks wife and much such a made woman, with a much fuller face, of the coulour and
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Polite Letters: The Correspondence of Mary Delany (1700-1788) and Francis North, Lord Guilford (1704-1790). (2020:82). United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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Lady Charlotte North (December 1770–25 October 1849), who married Lt. Col. The Hon. John Lindsay (15 March 1762 – 6 March 1826), son of the 5th
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Dudley North (31 May 1777 – 1779). His name is missing from some lists of Lord and Lady North's children, which incorrectly state they only had six.
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and his third wife Anne (née Williams). Her father died in 1753, when Anne was about 12 years old, and she inherited the former Drake estates in
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in 1786, and retired from active politics in 1790, in which year he succeeded to the title of
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British Prime Ministers from Walpole to Salisbury: The 18th and 19th Centuries: Volume 1
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Lady Anne North (8 January 1764 – 18 January 1832), who married the
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affectionate attachment to her was as unabated as her love and admiration of him.
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The Life of Joh, Churchill: Duke of Marlborough to the Accession of Queen Anne
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stood no chance before her. Add to this, that it is coverd with large red
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of mrs cook who formerly lived with your uncle Palmer, and looks as if
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between 1770 and 1782. During his term in office, she was known as "
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of Lady and Lord North with one of their children, possibly
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is spread, and to assist her shape, she was drest in white
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the following year, serving in that post until 1782.
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Index

Anne Speke
The Right Honourable

Catherine Read
Ilminster
Bushy House
Wroxton
Frederick North, Lord North
George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford
Francis North, 4th Earl of Guilford
Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford
George Speke

Joshua Reynolds
Frederick, Lord North
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Ilminster
George Speke MP
Devonshire
Dillington House

George Augustus
Frederick, Lord North
Lord Guilford
MP
Banbury
pounds
George Augustus
Catherine Anne
Francis

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