Roger North, 2nd Baron North

Roger North, 2nd Baron North (1531 – 3 December 1600) was an English peer and politician at the court of Elizabeth I.

Biography He was born 27 February 1531 to Edward North, 1st Baron North and his first wife. His father had represented Cambridgeshire in 3 Edwardian parliaments, and following his father's ennoblement by Mary I and presumably through his influence North sat for the Cambridgeshire in the queen's first parliament of 1555. His opposition to a government bill may have resulted in his failure to be returned for the next parliament, but he sat for Cambridge in the first two parliaments of Elizabeth I.

In 1568 he was sent to Vienna with the Earl of Sussex to invest Emperor Maximilian with the Order of the Garter. The queen came to his house at Kirtling for three days on 1 September 1578. The visit cost Lord North £642. He gave the queen a jewel worth £120.

North was a personal friend of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the Queen's favourite. He was present at the latter's secret marriage to Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex in 1578, and served at his expedition to the Netherlands in 1585–1587. Leicester wanted to make Lord North governor of Brill in 1586, which desire was, however, declined by Elizabeth. Their children included: Sir John North (c1551-1597) Sir Henry North (1556-1620)

North was succeeded upon his death in 1600 by his grandson, Dudley North, 3rd Baron North, the son of Sir John North.