North baronets

The Hicking, later North Baronetcy, of Southwell in the County of Nottingham, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 1 March 1920 for William Hicking, Chairman of the Nottingham and Notts Banking Company.

[1] He had already been granted a baronetcy in 1917 with normal remainder to the heirs male of his body.

[2] The 1920 creation was created with remainder to the sons of his daughters, and the heirs male of their bodies.

He was the son of Muriel, younger daughter of the first Baronet, and her husband the Hon.

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Jocelyn Montagu Dudley North (born 1989).