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Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford

Also known as: Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford; primary name: North, Frederick; other name: (Baron) North; other name: (Earl of) Guilford
Details: individual; politician/statesman; British; Male
Life dates: 1732-1792
Biography: Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the House of Commons, 1767. 1770-81, Prime Minister (as Lorth North). 1790, succeeded as Earl of Guilford. Sometimes depicted as a badger in satirical prints.

646 related objects

box

Museum number: 1978,1002.1961.b |
Production date: 1772-1792 |
Production place: Made in:England

drawing

Museum number: 1941,1213.523 |
Producer name: BIOG27366 Drawn by:John Flaxman |
Production date: 1755-1826

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1868,0808.5375 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1784

medal

Museum number: SSB,228.5 |
Producer name: Made by:John KirkAfter:Isaac Gosset |
Production date: 1775 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

print

Museum number: 1875,0814.2496 |
Producer name: After:John JonesAfter:Allan Ramsay |
Production date: 1787

print

Museum number: 1867,0413.789 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert Hartley CromekAfter:Nathaniel Dance |
Production date: 1801

print; satirical print

Title: The English lion dismember'd or the voice of the public for an enquiry into the public expenditure |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4663 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas ColleyPublished by:Edward Hedges |
Production date: 1780

print; satirical print

Title: The West-tr candidate coming north about the geese |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5207 |
Producer name: BIOG27543 Published by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: The coalition in the bilboes or the sufferings of the blue & buff, for going out of their proper tra |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6205 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1792

print; satirical print

Title: The night mare, or Prime Minister hag-ridden |
Museum number: 1851,0901.121 |
Producer name: BIOG32363 Published by:William Humphrey |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Boreas |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4908 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1772

print; satirical print

Title: The comet |
Museum number: J,4.44 |
Producer name: Print made by:James SayersPublished by:Thomas Cornell |
Production date: 1789

print; satirical print

Title: Morning preparation. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.13701 |
Producer name: BIOG28991 Print made by:James Gillray |
Production date: 1785

print; satirical print

Title: The rise of India stock, & sinking fund of oppression. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5085 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: The r-y-l hunt or the petitioners answer'd |
Museum number: 1865,0610.1131 |
Producer name: BIOG24516 Published by:Matthew Darly |
Production date: 1780

print; satirical print

Title: East India reformers or new ways & means. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5062 |
Producer name: BIOG163840 Published by:T Wiggins |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: [The coalition stage coach] |
Museum number: 1865,0610.1147 |
Producer name: Print made by:James SayersPublished by:Thomas Cornell |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: General Blackbeard wounded at the Battle of Leadenhall |
Museum number: J,3.65 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BoynePublished by:Edward Hedges |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: Time shutting the book of knaves or the coalition in the regions below |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5216 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: The political rat catcher |
Museum number: 1868,0808.10028 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1773

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: The able doctor, or America swallowing the bitter draught |
Museum number: 1855,0609.1926 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1774

print; satirical print

Title: Reformation- or, the wonderful effects of a proclamation!!! |
Museum number: J,4.101 |
Producer name: Print made by:Frederick George ByronFormerly attributed to:Thomas Rowlandson |
Production date: 1787

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: Engelsch Nieuws. |
Museum number: 1898,0520.184 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780

print; satirical print; broadside

Title: The Coalition Dissected |
Museum number: 1948,0214.781 |
Producer name: Print made by:William DentPublished by:J Cattermoul |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: The Royal Society |
Museum number: 1851,0901.288 |
Producer name: BIOG27543 Published by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1786

print; satirical print

Title: Brittannia roused, or the coalition monsters destroyed |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5130 |
Producer name: BIOG44408 Print made by:Thomas Rowlandson |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: The catch singers |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4546 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1776

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: The colossus of the north; or the striding boreas |
Museum number: 1867,0511.56 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1774

print; satirical print

Title: Pand[e]monium |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5098 |
Producer name: Print made by:James SayersPublished by:Thomas Cornell |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: Prince William's defeat or the tr-as-ry stormed. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.10327 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1789

print; satirical print

Title: Darby allant se coucher à Portsmouth ... Le Lord North attendant des nouvelles de l'Amérique |
Museum number: 1861,1012.149 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1782

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: The mitred minuet |
Museum number: 1868,0808.10061 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1774

print; satirical print

Title: The dissolution, or young grocer making palatable punch for his company |
Museum number: 1851,0901.205 |
Producer name: BIOG27543 Published by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: A modern patriot, harangueing his constituents. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5338 |
Producer name: BIOG50753 Published by:William Wells |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: Banditti |
Museum number: J,2.140 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BoynePublished by:Edward Hedges |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: Cicero against Verres. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5616 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BoynePublished by:Boyne & Walker |
Production date: 1787

print; satirical print; frontispiece

Title: The discovery. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4993 |
Producer name: BIOG44408 Print made by:Thomas Rowlandson |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: Political stag hunt or the M-l (Ministerial) hounds in full cry |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4719 |
Producer name: BIOG32363 Published by:William Humphrey |
Production date: 1780

print; satirical print

Title: In memory of Monday Decemr 17th 1783 |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5172 |
Producer name: BIOG130857 Published by:Edward Hedges |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: The triumph of virtue. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5183 |
Producer name: BIOG151654 Published by:Thomas Cornell |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: The balance of power |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4679 |
Producer name: BIOG147819 Published by:W Renegal |
Production date: 1780

print; satirical print

Title: Brittannia roused, or the coalition monsters destroyed |
Museum number: 1981,U.235 |
Producer name: BIOG44408 Print made by:Thomas Rowlandson |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: Suitors to Hibernia on her having a free trade |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4666 |
Producer name: BIOG149370 Published by:J Mills |
Production date: 1780

print; satirical print

Title: [North whitewashing Fox] |
Museum number: Y,10.38 |
Producer name: Print made by:James SayersPublished by:Edward Hedges |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Time and truth bring stranger things to pass |
Museum number: 1868,0808.13241 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1773

print; satirical print

Title: Proteus ye 2nd in several among his many publick characters. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5042 |
Producer name: BIOG157637 Published by:B Pownall |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Hibernia in distress |
Museum number: 1868,0808.10001 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1772

print; satirical print

Title: [Lord North] |
Museum number: Y,10.19 |
Producer name: Print made by:James SayersPublished by:Charles Bretherton |
Production date: 1782

print; satirical print

Title: The state nurses. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5175 |
Producer name: Attributed to:J BarrowPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: The Poor Blacks going to their Settlement |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5603 |
Producer name: Print made by:William DentPublished by:E Macklew |
Production date: 1787

print; satirical print

Title: Razor's levée, or ye heads of a new wig ad-n on a broad bottom. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4985 |
Producer name: Print made by:James SayersPublished by:Thomas Cornell |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: English credulity of the chevelere Morret taking a French leave |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5367 |
Producer name: BIOG50753 Published by:William Wells |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: The able doctor, or America swallowing the bitter draught |
Museum number: 1868,0808.10059 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1774

print; satirical print

Title: Patent saddles invented solely for the ease of Boreas and Reynard |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5009 |
Producer name: BIOG153290 Published by:Thomas Colley |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: Shelb-n badgered and foxed |
Museum number: 1873,0712.837 |
Producer name: BIOG155830 Published by:Elizabeth Darchery |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: The modern colossus |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5323 |
Producer name: BIOG166872 Published by:F Clarkson |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: The Privy Council |
Museum number: 1898,0520.185 |
Producer name: BIOG32363 Published by:William Humphrey |
Production date: 1780

print; satirical print

Title: Anticipation, or, the contrast to the royal hunt. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4840 |
Producer name: BIOG50753 Published by:William Wells |
Production date: 1782

print; satirical print

Title: Britain's hope, or the political nobodies. |
Museum number: J,2.111 |
Producer name: BIOG148606 Published by:George Humphrey |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: [North and Fox attack the Irish Resolutions] |
Museum number: Y,10.60 |
Producer name: Print made by:James SayersPublished by:Thomas Cornell |
Production date: 1785

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: The Treasury |
Museum number: 1868,0808.9916 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1770

print; satirical print

Title: Landing at Botany Bay |
Museum number: 1851,0901.311 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BoynePublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1786

print; satirical print

Title: Sir Zealous Godfrey giving a bouillon raffraichissant, to his friends |
Museum number: J,2.108 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BoynePublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: Razor's levée, or ye heads of a new wig ad-n on a broad bottom. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4986 |
Producer name: Print made by:James SayersPublished by:Thomas Cornell |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: Satan harangueing his troops previous to action/ Vide Paradise Lost Book 5th |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5111 |
Producer name: BIOG32363 Published by:William Humphrey |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: Reynard's Hope, a scene in the Tempest between Trinculo, Stephano and Caliban |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5249 |
Producer name: Print made by:William DentPublished by:J Brown |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: Such things may be. A tale for future times. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5690 |
Producer name: BIOG18227 Print made by:Joshua Kirby Baldrey |
Production date: 1788

print; satirical print

Title: Englisch Printet |
Museum number: 1862,0712.768 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1781

print; satirical print

Title: [North whitewashing Fox] |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4850 |
Producer name: Print made by:James SayersPublished by:Edward Hedges |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: That & this side of the water or Dutch & English politicks. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4713 |
Producer name: BIOG43581 Published by:William Richardson |
Production date: 1780

print; satirical print

Title: War |
Museum number: 1851,0901.122 |
Producer name: Attributed to:George DanceFormerly attributed to:James Gillray |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: A coalition between the fox & the badger, or the honey moon of their happy union. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.4.58 |
Producer name: BIOG32363 Published by:William Humphrey |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: The true portraits of the majority of the Par-l-t of pandemonium |
Museum number: 1868,0808.9970 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1771

print; satirical print

Title: The Covent Garden pantomime or the Westmintr candidates. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5262 |
Producer name: BIOG166870 Published by:Edward Shirlock |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: Grand Irish Air Balloon |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5377 |
Producer name: Print made by:William DentPublished by:J Brown |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: Bottom Snout & Quince |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5250 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BoynePublished by:John Wallis |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: A coalition between the fox & the badger, or the honey moon of their happy union |
Museum number: 1865,0610.1142 |
Producer name: BIOG32363 Published by:William Humphrey |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: The Royal Society. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5515 |
Producer name: BIOG27543 Published by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1786

print; satirical print

Title: The coalition |
Museum number: 1851,0901.128 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: A retrospective view of a certain cabinet junto |
Museum number: 1906,0823.12 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1773

print; satirical print

Title: The incubus, 1784 |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5087 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print; broadside

Museum number: 1862,0712.770 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780

print; satirical print

Title: State prostitution |
Museum number: 1867,0309.763 |
Producer name: BIOG20612 Published by:John Boyne |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: The ministers. |
Museum number: J,7.13 |
Producer name: BIOG36416 Published by:John Luffman |
Production date: 1800

print; satirical print

Title: State cooks, or the downfall of the fish kettle |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4785 |
Producer name: BIOG50753 Published by:William Wells |
Production date: 1781

print; satirical print

Title: The babes in the wood or coalition rondeau |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5354 |
Producer name: BIOG32361 Published by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: The right hon: C. J. Fox's scrutiny of his amiable colleague Lord North. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5339 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Lord North at the Spanish ambassador's |
Museum number: 1868,0808.9995 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1772

print; satirical print

Title: Return from Brighton, or a journey to Town for the Winter season |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5573 |
Producer name: Print made by:William DentPublished by:E Macklew |
Production date: 1786

print; satirical print

Title: A coalition medal struck in brass |
Museum number: 1851,0901.129 |
Producer name: Print made by:James SayersPublished by:Edward Hedges |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: Charles the third, kings of the beggars, who unfortunately lost his sight at the Battle of Leadenhal |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5191 |
Producer name: BIOG32363 Published by:William Humphrey |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: The meeting of the legion club. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5611 |
Producer name: After:Johann Heinrich RambergPublished by:Thomas Harmar |
Production date: 1787

print; satirical print

Title: The preliminary Solomons surprized by the ghost of John Hangemchop Esqr |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4920 |
Producer name: BIOG149371 Published by:J Barrow |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: The meeting of the legion club. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.335 |
Producer name: After:Johann Heinrich RambergPublished by:Thomas Harmar |
Production date: 1787

print; satirical print

Title: The levee |
Museum number: 1873,0712.841 |
Producer name: Print made by:Edward TophamPublished by:Elizabeth Darchery |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Boreas |
Museum number: 1868,0808.10060 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1774

print; satirical print

Title: The junto, in a bowl dish. |
Museum number: 1873,0712.828 |
Producer name: BIOG43581 Published by:William Richardson |
Production date: 1781

print; satirical print

Title: The goats canter to Windsor or the cuckold's comfort |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5181 |
Producer name: BIOG130854 Published by:John Wallis |
Production date: 1784

print; satirical print

Title: The compound medallion |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4960 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1783

print; satirical print

Title: Florizel and Perdita |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5044 |
Producer name: BIOG157637 Published by:B Pownall |
Production date: 1783