He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he was admitted as a Pensioner in 1919.
Following a strong swing to the Conservatives, he unseated the sitting Labour MP, Frank Smith with a majority of 2,464.
He did not contest the seat in 1935 when it was lost back to the Labour candidate, Reginald Fletcher.
During the Second World War, North served as a Major in the Royal Armoured Corps, Yorkshire Hussars.
He is buried in the churchyard of St John the Baptist church, Tunstall, Lancashire.