Dudley, Lord, the third baron of that accomplished family, was one of the finest gentlemen in the court of King James; but in supporting that character, dissipated and gained away the greatest part of his fortune. In 1645, he appears to have acted with the parliament; and was nominated by them to be administrator of the admiralty, in conjunction with the great earls of Northumberland, Essex, Warwick, and others. He lived to the age of 85, the latter part of which he passed in retirement; and wrote a small folio of miscellanies, in prose and verse, under this title, A Forest promiscuous of several Seafons Productions, in four parts, 1659.

Dudley, Lord, son of the former, was made knight of the Bath in 1616, at the creation of Charles prince of Wales; and sat in many parliaments, till excluded by the prevailing party in that which condemned the king. From that period Lord North lived privately in the country, and towards the end of his life entertained himself with books, and, as his numerous titles required, with economy; on which he wrote a little tract, called Observations and advices economical, 12mo. His other works are, Passages relating to the long parliament; the history of the life of Lord Edward North, the first baron of the family, addressed to his eldest son; and a volume of Essays.

Francis, Lord Guildford, lord keeper of the great seal in the reigns of Charles II. and James II., was a third son of the second Dudley lord North, baron of Kertling; and studied at St John's college in Cambridge, from whence he removed to the Middle Temple. He acquired French, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch; and became not only a good lawyer, but was well versed in history, mathematics, philosophy, and music. He was afterwards made the king's solicitor-general, and was chosen to represent the borough of Lynn in parliament. He succeeded Sir Heneage Finch in the post of attorney-general; and Lord Chief-Justice Vaughan, in the place of lord chief-justice of the common pleas. He was afterwards made keeper of the great seal; and in 1683 was created a baron by the title of Lord Guildford. He died at his house at Wroxton in 1685. He wrote a philosophical essay on music; a paper on the gravitation of fluids, considered in the bladders of fishes, printed in Lowthorp's abridgement of the Philosophical Transactions; and some other pieces.

Right Honourable Frederick, earl of Guildford, Lord North, lord warden and admiral of the Cinque Ports, governor of Dover castle, lord lieutenant and custos rotulorum of Somersetshire, chancellor of the university of Oxford, recorder of Gloucester and Taunton, an elder brother of the Trinity house, president of the Foundling hospital and of the Asylum, a governor of the Turkey Company and of the Charter house, K. G. and LL. D. was born April 13, 1732; and married, May 20, 1756, Miss Ann Speke, an heiress of the ancient family of Dillington in Somersetshire, by whom he has left two sons and three daughters: the eldest son George Augustus, born September 11, 1759, and married, September 30, 1785, to Miss Hobart, succeeds to the earldom and estates. The late earl succeeded his father August 4, 1790. His lordship succeeded the celebrated Mr Charles Townend as manager of the house of commons and chancellor of the exchequer; and in 1779, on the resignation of the duke of Grafton, was made first lord of the treasury; in which office he continued until the close of the American war, or rather until the formation of the Rockingham ministry, which began the business of peace with the colonies. He was a man of strong mental faculties; and as an orator, at once commanded attention and enforced conviction: but taking the helm at a time when the king's party were unpopular, and when it was supposed that the late earl of Bute was the great machine by which the cabinet was moved, he continued in that state of unpopularity until he resigned the seals. During the whole of his premiership (and to conduct the helm at that time required uncommonly great abilities) he studiously avoided imposing any taxes that should materially affect the lower class of people. The luxuries, and not the necessaries, of life were repeated objects of his budget. As a financier, he stood high, even in the opinion of opposition; and they were a combination of all the great talents in the kingdom: but, fatally wedded to the destructive plan of subduing the republican spirit of the Americans, his administration will not only stand marked in the page of history with an immense waste of public treasure, but it will appear besprinkled with the kindred blood of thousands of British subjects. To the very last moment he spoke in the senate, however, he defended that war; and said, he was then, as he was formerly, prepared to meet the minutest investigation as to his conduct in that business; which nothing but the unforeseen intervention of France could have prevented from being crowned with success. His lordship was one of the firmest and most strenuous supporters of the constitution in church and state. He died on the 5th of August 1792. His recollection he retained to his last moments: his family, except Lord North, who came within a few minutes afterwards, were assembled round his bed, and he took leave of them individually. Their grief did not suffer them to leave the room for some time after the event; event; and Lady Caroline Douglas was at last forced from it. Even Dr Warren, who must be strengthened as far as habit can operate against nature to endure such scenes, ran from this, convulted with sorrow. If any extent of sympathy can lessen affliction, this family may find such relief; for perhaps no man was ever more generally beloved by all who had access to him than the earl of Guildford.

We may form an opinion of the estimation the celebrated university of Oxford entertained of their chancellor while living, by the very great honour they paid to his remains. About five o'clock in the afternoon of the 19th, the great bell at St Mary's church at Oxford rang out, which was a signal that the funeral procession had arrived in the environs of that city. The officers of the university, and the whole body of resident students, were previously assembled in Magdalen College, in order to pay some tribute to the memory of their deceased chancellor. They joined the procession at Magdalen Bridge, and paraded on foot before the hearse up the high street to Carfax; from thence down the corn market to St Giles's church at the town's end, in a most solemn manner. Here they halted, and opening to the right and left, the hearse and other carriages passed through, the whole university being uncovered. The hearse and attendants then proceeded to Banbury, where his lordship's remains were deposited in the family vault.