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Authorised form of nameNorth; William (1678 - 1734); 6th Baron North and 2nd Lord Grey
Dates1678 - 1734
Place of birthCaldecot, Cambridgeshire
Date of birth22 December 1678
Place of deathMadrid, Spain
Date of death31 October 1734
OccupationSoldier
ActivityEducation:
Magdalen College, Cambridge (matriculated 1691); Foubert's Military Academy (entered 1694)
Career:
Having got into debt as a minor, on the advice of his uncle he travelled abroad until he attained his majority (1696-1699); Captain in the Foot Guards (1702); Colonel of the 10th Foot (1703-1715); served at the Battle of Blenheim, where his right hand was shot off (1704); Brigadier General (1705); Governor of Sheerness (1705); Major General (1709); Lieutenant General (1710); Privy Councillor (1711-1714); Governor of Portsmouth (1711-1714); Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (1711-1715); hypothetically created Earl North by the Old Pretender (1722); imprisoned in the Tower of London on a charge of high treason on suspicion of complicity in Atterbury's plot (1722); escaped to the Isle of Wight but was recaptured and released on bail of £20,000 (1723); went to Paris and then to Spain; became a Roman Catholic, thereby losing the friendship of Atterbury (1728)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/06/1720
ProposerGeorge Moult
RelationshipsSon of Charles North, 5th Baron North, and his wife, Katharine, widow of Sir Edward Moseley, Bart, of Hough, Lancashire, and Rollaston, Staffordshire, and daughter of William Grey, 1st Baron Grey of Warke, and his wife, Cecilia or Priscilla, daughter of Sir John Wentworth of Gosfield, Essex; succeeded his father (1691); married Maria Margaretta, daughter of Cornelius de Yong, Lord of Elmeet in the United Provinces and Receiver General of the States of Holland; no children
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; GEC; Venn
References:
Obituaries in 'Gentleman's Magazine' 1734, p626; 'London Magazine' 1734, p608; 'Historical Register Chronological Diary' 1734, p30
CodeNA1066
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IM/003342North, William, 6th Baron North and 2nd Lord Greynd
MS/390/186Bond of William North, 6th Baron North and 2nd Baron Grey, to the Treasurer of the Royal Society7 April 1720
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