Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford

Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford (13 April 1704 – 4 August 1790), of Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, styled as Lord Guilford between 1729 and 1752, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 until 1729 at which point he succeeded to the peerage as Baron Guildford.

His son, Frederick North, was the famous Prime Minister of Great Britain who lost the American Revolutionary War under his term.

[1] At the 1727 British general election, North was returned unopposed as Whig Member of Parliament for Banbury on the family interest.

On 8 April 1752, he was created Earl of Guilford in the Peerage of Great Britain.

[citation needed] Lord Guilford survived his third wife by fourteen years and died in August 1790, aged 86.