John North was educated in Bury St Edmunds and entered Jesus College, Cambridge as a fellow-commoner in February 1660/1.
He graduated BA in 1663/4, and (by Royal mandate) became a fellow of Jesus in 1664.
[1] In 1672 he migrated to Trinity College, Cambridge, and was Regius Professor of Greek from 1672 to 1674.
Made Clerk of the Closet in 1673, he was a prebendary of Westminster from 1673 to 1683 and chaplain to the King from 1676 to 1683.
He is buried in Trinity College Chapel.