_their Bavarian contest._ The War of the Bavarian Succession, 1778-79,
occasioned by the extinction of the electoral house of Bavaria upon the
death of Maximilian Joseph.
_Lord North._ Frederick, Lord North (1732-1792), eldest son of the first
Earl of Guilford; M.P. for Banbury; First Lord of the Treasury, 1770-82;
succeeded as second Earl of Guilford, 1790; see Introduction, _passim_.