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Lord North was one of the most able peacetime Prime Ministers of the eighteenth century. Although at first his ministry was not expected to last, it had many assets. North himself was a highly competent administrator and manager of finances.
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Duke of Bedford quoted in Ross J. S. Hoffman, The Marquis (New York (Fordham), 1973).
L. & J. C. F. Stone, An Open Elite? England 1540–1880 (Oxford, 1984).
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Perry, K. (1990). Lord North and the Loss of the American Colonies 1770–83. In: British Politics and the American Revolution. British History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20931-6_3
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