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1653–1734 England

Roger North KC (3 September 1653 – 1 March 1734) was an English lawyer, biographer and amateur musician. He was the sixth son of the 4th Baron North.

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And grant that a man read all the books of music that ever were wrote, I shall not allow that music is or can be understood out of them, no more than the taste of meats out of cookish receipt books.

The Musicall Grammarian (1728)

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