Burke finely sums up his character in his _Letter to a Noble Lord_: "He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding, fitted for every sort of business; of infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself," he continues, "by a weak adulation, and not to honour the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command which the times required." By his wife Anne (d. 1797), daughter of George Speke of White Lackington, Somerset, Guilford had four sons, the eldest of whom, George Augustus (1757-1802), became 3rd earl on his father's death. This earl was a member of parliament from 1778 to 1792 and was a member of his father's ministry and also of the royal household; he left no sons when he died on the 20th of April 1802 and was succeeded in the earldom by his brother Francis (1761-1817), who also left no sons. The youngest brother, Frederick (1766-1827), who now became 5th earl of Guilford, was remarkable for his great knowledge and love of Greece and of the Greek language. He had a good deal to do with the foundation of the Ionian university at Corfu, of which he was the first chancellor and to which he was very liberal. Guilford, who was governor of Ceylon from 1798 to 1805, died unmarried on the 14th of October 1827. His cousin, Francis (1772-1861), a son of Brownlow North, bishop of Winchester from 1781 to 1820, was the 6th earl, and the latter's descendant, Frederick George (b. 1876), became 8th earl in 1886. On the death of the 3rd earl of Guilford in 1802 the barony of North fell into abeyance between his three daughters, the survivor of whom, Susan (1797-1884). wife of John Sidney Doyle, who took the name of North, was declared by the House of Lords in 1841 to be Baroness North, and the title passed to her son, William Henry John North, the 11th baron (b. 1836) (see NORTH, BARONS). For the Lord Keeper Guilford see the _Lives_ by the Hon. R. North, edited by A. Jessopp (1890); and E. Foss, _The Judges of England_, vol. vii. (1848-1864). For the prime minister, Lord North, see _Correspondence of George III._ with Lord North, edited by W. B. Donne (1867); Horace Walpole, _Journal of the Reign of George III._ (1859), and _Memoirs of the Reign of George III._, edited by G. F. R. Barker (1894); Lord Brougham, _Historical Sketches of Statesmen_, vol. i. (1839); Earl Stanhope, _History of England_ (1858); Sir T. E. May, _Constitutional History of England_ (1863-1865); and W. E. H. Lecky, _History of England in the 18th century_ (1878-1890).