Francis North 2nd Baron Guildford 1673-1729

On 14th December 1673 Francis North 2nd Baron Guildford was born to Francis North 1st Baron Guildford [aged 36].

On 5th September 1685 [his father] Francis North 1st Baron Guildford [aged 47] died. His son Francis [aged 11] succeeded 2nd Baron Guildford.

On 30th December 1687 Wriothesley Baptist Noel 2nd Earl Gainsborough [aged 26] and [his future sister-in-law] Catherine Greville Duchess Buckingham and Normandby were married. He the son of Edward Noel 1st Earl Gainsborough [aged 46] and Elizabeth Wriothesley Countess Gainsborough [aged 41].

On 25th February 1695 Francis North 2nd Baron Guildford [aged 21] and Elizabeth Greville Baroness Guildford were married. She by marriage Baroness Guildford.

In 1699 John Cecil 6th Earl Exeter [aged 24] and [his future sister-in-law] Elizabeth Brownlow Countess Exeter [aged 18] were married. He the son of John Cecil 5th Earl Exeter [aged 51] and Anne Cavendish Countess Exeter [aged 50].

On 12th March 1699 John Sheffield 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby [aged 50] and [his sister-in-law] Catherine Greville Duchess Buckingham and Normandby were married at St Clement Danes Church, Westminster [Map]. She by marriage Countess Mulgrave. He the son of Edmund Sheffield 2nd Earl Mulgrave and Elizabeth Cranfield Countess Mulgrave [aged 91]. They were sixth cousins.

On 4th November 1699 [his wife] Elizabeth Greville Baroness Guildford died in childbirth.

John Evelyn's Diary. 19th November 1699. At our chapel in the evening there was a sermon preached by young Mr. Horneck, chaplain to Lord Guilford [aged 25], whose [his former wife] lady's funeral had been celebrated magnificently the Thursday before. A panegyric was now pronounced, describing the extraordinary piety and excellently employed life of this amiable young lady. She died in childbed a few days before, to the excessive sorrow of her husband, who ordered the preacher to declare that it was on her exemplary life, exhortations and persuasion, that he totally changed the course of his life, which was before in great danger of being perverted; following the mode of this dissolute age. Her devotion, early piety, charity, fastings, economy, disposition of her time in reading, praying, recollections in her own handwriting of what she heard and read, and her conversation were most exemplary.

Around 1700. Circle of Thomas Murray [aged 37]. Portrait of Francis North 2nd Baron Guildford [aged 26].

In 1703 Francis North 2nd Baron Guildford [aged 29] and Alicia Brownlow Baroness Guildford [aged 19] were married. She by marriage Baroness Guildford.

On 13th April 1704 [his son] Francis North 1st Earl Guildford was born to Francis North 2nd Baron Guildford [aged 30] and [his wife] Alicia Brownlow Baroness Guildford [aged 20]. He married 1. 1728 his fourth cousin Lucy Montagu Baroness Guildford, daughter of George Montagu 1st Earl Halifax and Ricarda Posthuma Saltonstale, and had issue 2. 24th January 1736 Elizabeth Kaye Baroness North and Guildford, daughter of Arthur Kaye 3rd Baronet, and had issue 3. 13th June 1751 Catherine Furnese Countess Guilford and Rockingham, daughter of Robert Furnese 2nd Baronet.

In June 1711 Peregrine Bertie 2nd Duke Ancaster and Kesteven [aged 25] and [his sister-in-law] Jane Brownlow Duchess Ancaster and Kesteven were married. He the son of Robert Bertie 1st Duke Ancaster and Kesteven [aged 50] and Mary Wynn.

In 1712 Francis North 2nd Baron Guildford [aged 38] was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Essex.

In 1712 Francis North 2nd Baron Guildford [aged 38] was appointed Privy Council.

In 1727 [his wife] Alicia Brownlow Baroness Guildford [aged 43] died.

In 1728 [his son] Francis North 1st Earl Guildford [aged 23] and [his daughter-in-law] Lucy Montagu Baroness Guildford were married. She the daughter of George Montagu 1st Earl Halifax [aged 44] and Ricarda Posthuma Saltonstale. They were fourth cousins.

On 17th October 1729 Francis North 2nd Baron Guildford [aged 55] died. His son Francis [aged 25] succeeded 3rd Baron Guildford. Lucy Montagu Baroness Guildford by marriage Baroness Guildford.