Dudley North, 4th Baron North
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Dudley North, 4th Baron North (1602-1677), increased the family fortune by marrying the daughter of Sir Charles Montagu, brother of the 1st earl of Manchester.
He was an accomplished man, of studious bent, and had fourteen children, of whom the third son, Francis, became lord chancellor as Lord Guilford; the fourth was Sir Dudley North, the economist; the fifth, John (1645-1683), master of Trinity, Cambridge, and professor of Greek in the university; and the sixth, Roger, the lawyer and historian.
The eldest son, Charles (d. 1691), was created Lord Grey of Rolleston during his father's life, and succeeded his father as 5th Baron North.