Earl of Guilford
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Earl of Guilford is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1752.
The Earl holds the subsidiary title of Baron Guilford, of Guilford in the County of Surrey, in the Peerage of England. Francis North, who was the third son of the 4th Baron North, was created Baron Guilford in 1683, after becoming Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in succession to Lord Nottingham. He was succeeded as 2nd baron by his son Francis, whose eldest son Francis, after inheriting first his father's title as 3rd baron, and then (in 1734) the barony of North from his kinsman the 6th Baron North, was in 1752 created 1st earl of Guilford.
The North title, created by writ, became abeyant on the death of the 3rd earl; his other titles passed to the nearest male heir. However, lacking a different secondary title, the heirs-apparent to the earldom have continued to use, without any legal basis, Lord North as a courtesy title.
An unqualified reference to Lord North almost always refers to Frederick North, Lord North, later 2nd Earl of Guilford, who was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770-1782.
The family seat is Waldershare House, near Dover, Kent. The town in Surrey from which both titles derive is now spelt Guildford.
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[edit] Barons Guilford (1683)
- Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford (1637-1685)
- Francis North, 2nd Baron Guilford (1673-1729)
- Francis North, 3rd Baron Guilford (1704-1790) (became Earl of Guilford in 1752)
[edit] Earls of Guilford (1752)
- Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford (1704-1790)
- Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (1732-1792)
- George Augustus North, 3rd Earl of Guilford (1757-1802)
- Francis North, 4th Earl of Guilford (1761-1817)
- Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827)
- Francis North, 6th Earl of Guilford (1772-1861)
- Dudley Francis North, 7th Earl of Guilford (1851-1885)
- Frederick George North, 8th Earl of Guilford (1876-1949)
- Edward Francis North, 9th Earl of Guilford (1933-1999)
- Piers Edward Brownlow North, 10th Earl of Guilford (b. 1971)
Heir Apparent: Frederick North, Lord North (24 June 2002)
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
