Frederick North, Lord North
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Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford, better known by his courtesy title Lord North, which he used from 1752 to 1790, was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782. He led the Kingdom of Grea
Portrait by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, c. 1773–74
Portrait of Lord North by Pompeo Batoni (1753)
In The State Tinkers (1780), James Gillray caricatured North (on his knees) and his allies as incompetent tinkers of the National Kettle. George III cries out in rapture in the rear.
French caricature on the government of Frederick North after the defeat of Grenada (1779).
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1783 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Sydney. He held several important Cabinet p
c. 1785 portrait of Sydney attributed to Gilbert Stuart
Frognal House by George Shepherd appears in Thomas Ireland's History of Kent published c. 1830.