DUDLEY NORTH, 3rd Baron North (158i-1666), son of Sir John North and of Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Sir Valen tine Dale, was born in 1581 and succeeded his grandfather, the 2nd Baron North, at the age of 19. He was educated at Cam bridge, and married in 1599 Frances, daughter of Sir John Brockett of Brockett Hall, Hertfordshire. He travelled in. Italy, took part in the campaign of 1602 in the Netherlands, and on his return became a conspicuous figure at court, excelling in athletic exercises as well as in poetry and music, and gaining the friend ship of Prince Henry. In 1606, while returning from Eridge to London, he discovered the springs of Tunbridge Wells, which cured North himself of a complaint and quickly became famous. He also recommended the Epsom springs to the public. He sup ported and subscribed to the expedition to Guiana made by his brother Roger North (c. 1582—c. 1652) in 1619, and when Roger departed without leave Dudley was imprisoned for two days in the Fleet. In 1626 he attached himself to the party of Lord Saye and Sele in the Lords, who were in sympathy with the aims of the Commons ; and when the civil war broke out he was on the side of the parliament. In 1641 he was a member of the Lords' committee on Religion, and served on the committee to consider Laud's attainder in 1644, finally voting for the ordinance in Jan. 1645. He was placed on the admiralty commission in
1645, and acted as lord lieutenant for Cambridgeshire. He was one of the small group of Lords who continued attendance in the House of Peers, and on Dec. 19, 1648, with three others, visited Fairfax, when they "cast down their honours at his Ex cellency's feet" and protested their desire not to retain any privileges prejudicial to the public interest. (Gardiner's Civil War, iv. 285.) He passed the rest of his life in retirement at Kirtling in Cambridgeshire, with his family, finding "employment with many airy entertainments as poetry, writing essays, building, making mottoes and inscriptions as well as in music." He wrote A Forest of Varieties (1645), a miscellany of essays and poems, another edition of which was published in 1659 under the title of A Forest promiscuous of various Seasons' Productions. He died on Jan. 16, 1666. North is described as "full of spirit and flame," of imperious temper but of well-balanced judgment, Lord Holland declaring that "he knew no man less swayed with passion and sooner carried with reason and justice." He left, besides one daughter, two sons, the elder of whom, Sir Dudley, succeeded him as 4th Baron North.