# Lord North — The American Crisis character guide

> Lord North in The American Crisis by Thomas Paine.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Lord North

**First appearance:** 0002-the-crisis-i

## Snapshot

Britain's Prime Minister, the face of parliamentary tyranny whose policies drove the colonies to rebellion and whose name Paine invokes as a byword for oppressive governance.

## Who they are

North never appears directly, but his ministry's decisions frame every grievance Paine catalogues. He embodies the distant, unaccountable power that Americans rejected, a minister whose tax acts and coercive measures turned loyal subjects into revolutionaries. Paine uses him as a foil: every argument for independence gains force by contrast with the government North represents.

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