Edward North, 1st Baron North

Edward North, 1st Baron North (c. 1496–1564) was an English peer and politician. He was the Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire 1559–1564 and Clerk of the Parliaments. A successful lawyer, he was created the first Baron North, giving him a seat in the House of Lords.

Born about 1496, North was the only son of Sir Roger North (c.1448–1509), a London merchant, by Christiana Warcup, the daughter of Richard Warcup of Sinnington, Yorkshire. After the death of Roger North in 1509, Christiana (née Warcup) married, as her second husband, Sir Ralph Warren, Lord Mayor of London.

Edward North had an only sister, Joan, who married a London alderman, William Wilkinson (1481-1513), by whom she had three daughters. After her husband's death she was silkwoman to Anne Boleyn. She died as a Marian exile in 1556 at Frankfurt at the home of her cousin, Cuthbert Warcup.

Edward North studied at St Paul's School under William Lyly, and later entered Peterhouse, Cambridge, but seems never to have proceeded to a degree. He then entered one of the Inns of Court, was called to the bar, and became counsel for the City of London, probably through the influence of Alderman Wilkinson, who had married his sister Joan.

In 1531 North was appointed clerk of the parliament and was associated in that office with Sir Brian Tuke. In 1536 he appears as one of the king's serjeants. In 1541 he resigned his office as clerk of the parliament, on being appointed treasurer of the court of augmentations, a court created by the king for dealing with the estates which had been confiscated by the dissolution of the monasteries. In 1541 he was knighted, and he served as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire for 1543. He was one of the knights of the shire for Cambridgeshire in the English parliaments of 1542, 1547, and 1553.

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