Lord North led Great Britain through most of the American War of Independence.
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18 Facts About Lord North
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Lord North held a number of other cabinet posts, including Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Lord North was descended from Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, paternal uncle of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich and was related to Samuel Pepys and the 3rd Earl of Bute.
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Lord North's father remarried, but his stepmother, Elizabeth Kaye, widow of George Legge, Viscount Lewisham, eldest son of William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth and his wife, Lady Anne Finch, third daughter of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Aylesford, died in 1745, when Frederick was thirteen.
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Lord North was educated at Eton College between 1742 and 1748 and at Trinity College, Oxford, where in 1750 he was awarded an MA.
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Lord North soon developed a reputation as a good administrator and parliamentarian and was generally liked by his colleagues.
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Lord North turned down an offer by Rockingham to rejoin the government, not wanting to be associated with the Whig grandees that dominated the Ministry.
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Lord North returned to office when Pitt returned to head a second government in 1766.
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Lord North was appointed Joint Paymaster of the Forces in Pitt's ministry and became a Privy Counsellor.
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Lord North took over with Great Britain in a triumphant state following the Seven Years' War, which had seen the First British Empire expand to a peak by taking in vast new territories on several continents.
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In contrast to many of his predecessors, Lord North enjoyed a good relationship with George III, partly based on their shared patriotism and desire for decency in their private lives.
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Lord North's ministry had an early success during the Falklands Crisis in 1770, in which Great Britain faced down a Spanish attempt to seize the Falkland Islands, nearly provoking a war.
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Lord North was the second British Prime Minister to be forced out of office by a motion of no confidence; the first was Sir Robert Walpole in 1742.
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In spite of this, Lord North was critical of the terms agreed by the Shelburne government which he felt undervalued the strength of the British negotiating position.
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Lord North was an active speaker until he began to go blind in 1786.
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Lord North is today predominantly remembered as the Prime Minister "who lost America".
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Lord North was the sole heiress of the Devonshire estates of the Drake family of Ash, which subsequently were sold piecemeal by Lord North.
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