Brownlow North

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Brownlow North was born on 17 July 1741 in Chelsea, Middlesex, Great Britain, the only son of Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford and his second wife Elizabeth, only child and sole heir of Sir Arthur Kaye {{post-nominals|country=GBR|Bt|MP}}, and widow of her first husband George Legge, Viscount Lewisham (son of William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth), therefore styled as the dowager Viscountess Lewisham until her second marriage.

North's maternal half-siblings included Anne, Countess of Cardigan (who married James Brudenell, 5th Earl of Cardigan), and William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth;[http://cracroftspeerage.co.uk/dartmouth1711.htm Cracroft's Peerage — Earls of Dartmouth] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130091445/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/dartmouth1711.htm |date=30 January 2018 }} (Accessed 27 July 2015) his paternal half-siblings included Frederick North, Lord North, the future Prime Minister. His only full sibling was Louisa, Lady Willoughby de Broke (who married John Peyto-Verney, 14th Baron Willoughby de Broke).[http://cracroftspeerage.co.uk/guilford1752.htm Cracroft's Peerage — Earls of Guilford] (Accessed 27 July 2015)

He was educated at Eton College (1752–1759) and Trinity College, Oxford (where he matriculated on 10 January 1760 as a fellow-commoner), graduating as a Bachelor of Arts in 1762. He became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1763, gaining his Master of Arts (Oxon) on 4 July 1766 and Doctor of Civil Law in 1770.{{alox2|title=North, Brownlow (1)}}

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North was ordained a deacon at Christ Church by John Hume, Bishop of Oxford, on 27 October 1765{{CCEd |type=ordination |id=140823 |name=North, Brownlow |accessed=27 July 2015 }} and priest at Grosvenor Chapel, Westminster by Frederick Cornwallis, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry on 12 April 1767.{{CCEd |type=ordination |id=103502 |name=North, Brownlow |accessed=27 July 2015 }} Supremely well-connected — his father was an influential courtier and his half-brother Frederick was to become Prime Minister of Great Britain — North enjoyed substantial, rapid and early career advances. His brother-in-law Willoughby de Broke presented him to the rectory of Lighthorne, then the crown presented him to the 4th prebend at Christ Church on 28 April 1768.{{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae |last=Horn |first=Joyce M. |period=1541–1857 |volume=8 |pages=94–97}}

He remained a canon of Oxford until he was installed as Dean of Canterbury on 6 October 1770;{{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae |last=Horn |first=Joyce M. |period=1541–1857 |volume=3 |pages=12–15}} while there he obtained the lucrative livings of Lydd and Bexley, both of which he retained while at Lichfield. North left Canterbury for Lichfield in 1771, when his half-brother the Prime Minister's recommendation saw him elected Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. His election to that see having been confirmed on 26 August 1771,{{CCEd |type=appointment |id=283509 |name=North, Brownlow |location=Lichfield & Coventry |accessed=27 July 2015}} he was consecrated a bishop by Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (with Richard Terrick, Bishop of London; Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester; and William Markham Bishop of Chester) on 8 September 1771 at Lambeth Palace chapel{{CCEd |type=appointment |id=283510 |name=North, Brownlow |location=Lichfield & Coventry |accessed=27 July 2015}}

North was Bishop of Lichfield for three years before his election as Bishop of Worcester was confirmed on 27 December 1774;{{CCEd |type=appointment |id=303425 |name=North, Brownlow |location=Worcester |accessed=27 July 2015}} he then remained in Worcester for six and a half years until his election to the See of Winchester was confirmed on 5 June 1781.{{CCEd |type=appointment |id=307930 |name=North, Brownlow |location=Winchester |accessed=27 July 2015}} Throughout the period of his appointments to these two Sees his half-brother remained Prime Minister.

North was enthroned (by proxy) at Winchester Cathedral on 25 June 1781{{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae |last=Horn |first=Joyce M. |period=1541–1857 |volume=3 |pages=80–83}} and continued as Bishop of Winchester until his death, following a long illness, at Winchester House, Chelsea on 12 July 1820. He was then buried at his cathedral on 21 August 1820. The monument was sculpted by Francis Chantrey.Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis

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On 17 January 1771, North married Henrietta Maria Bannister, who died on 17 November 1796. His eldest son Francis North, 6th Earl of Guilford and his youngest Charles Augustus North both became Anglican priests; of his four daughters, one (Henrietta) married a priest and another (Elizabeth) married Thomas de Grey, 4th Baron Walsingham. The 19th century evangelist, also named Brownlow North was his grandson (Charles' son.)

• 1741–1765: The Honourable Brownlow North
• 1765–1768: The Reverend and Honourable Brownlow North
• 1768–1770: The Reverend and Honourable Canon Brownlow North
• 1770-1771: The Very Reverend and Honourable Brownlow North
• 1771–1820: The Right Reverend and Honourable Brownlow North

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