biography
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North, Frederick, 8th Baron North
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| lived:
| (1732–92)
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| biography:
| British statesman and prime minister (1770–82), born in London, UK. He became a Lord of the Treasury (1759) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1767), and as prime minister brought George III a period of political stability. He was widely criticized both for failing to avert the Declaration of Independence by the North American colonies (1776) and for failing to defeat them in the subsequent war (1776–83). He annoyed the king by resigning in 1782, then formed a coalition with his former Whig opponent, Fox (1783), but it did not survive royal hostility. After this coalition was dismissed (1783), he remained an Opposition politician until his death. |
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