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Frederick North, Lord North

BIRTH

Apr 13, 1732

Piccadilly, London, Great Britain

DEATH

August 5, 1792

London, Great Britain

FAMILY

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North, Frederick, Lord North

(1732-1792)

Frederick North, Lord North (1732–1792), was prime minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782. His ministry enacted the Tea Act, answered the Boston Tea Party with the Coercive Acts, and directed Britain through most of the American Revolutionary War.

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London, Great Britain

Aug 5, 1792

Frederick North, Lord North was born on or about Apr 13, 1732 in Piccadilly, London, Great Britain. The names of the parents are not yet securely established in this database. These family and geographic circumstances formed the earliest setting for a life later associated with ["STATESMAN"]. The surviving evidence represented in this record does not always preserve the details of childhood schooling, household routine, religious instruction, apprenticeship, or youthful travel. Where such particulars remain uncertain, they are not reconstructed as fact. Even so, the known birthplace and family connections place this individual within the local, colonial, imperial, Indigenous, or Atlantic communities that shaped opportunity and identity in the eighteenth century. Those early relationships could determine education, inheritance, occupation, marriage prospects, military obligations, religious affiliation, and access to political or commercial networks. Social position also influenced which experiences were documented. Elite households often left correspondence, property records, school accounts, or legal papers, while the childhoods of women, laborers, enslaved people, Indigenous people, and less prominent relatives were more likely to survive only indirectly. Absence of detail should therefore be understood as a limitation of the record, not as evidence that the early years were uneventful or unimportant. Place mattered as well: settlement patterns, nearby ports and roads, denominational institutions, warfare, migration, and kinship networks all affected the choices available to a young person. This early-life summary therefore emphasizes the documented setting and immediate family rather than unsupported anecdotes. It establishes a careful biographical foundation while leaving room for future discoveries from family papers, parish registers, probate files, military documents, and local histories. Together, these facts provide the background necessary for understanding how Frederick North, Lord North entered the adult world described in the Career field and became connected to the people, events, and historic places indexed by HistoryGPS.

North served in Parliament and held several senior offices before becoming first lord of the Treasury in 1770. Although he sometimes favored conciliation, his ministry pursued coercion after the Boston Tea Party and oversaw the expanding war. He resigned in 1782 after the surrender at Yorktown destroyed parliamentary confidence in his government.

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