Henry North of Liverpool, UK, born 1836

[ShaunJ]

Sir Ford North did have a wife Elizabeth of that age, born Everton, and she is not with him at home in Paddington in the 1871 census.

[ainslie]

I now find that Ford's wife Elizabeth was a sister of Adah Mann, and think that the enumerator in that 1871 census had a few details adrift, especially Elizabeth's status.
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[ShaunJ]

Back to Henry: there was a Henry North, merchant, aged 41, born England, on the steamship Canada arrived New York from London on 15 December 1876.

[ShaunJ]

Bankruptcy proceedings in 1874:

The Bankruptcy Act. 1869.
In the County Court of Lancashire, holden at Liverpool. In the Matter of a Special Resolution for Liquidation by Arrangement of the affairs of Henry North, of Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Marine Insurance Broker, but now of Rumford-place, in Liverpool aforesaid, Gentleman.
The creditors of the above-named Henry North who have not already proved their debts, are required, on or before the 19ih day of January, 1874, to send their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims to me, the undersigned, Harmood Walcot Banner, of 24,North John-street, in Liverpool aforesaid, the Trustee under the liquidation, or in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of the Dividend proposed to be declared.—Dated this 9th day of January, 1874.
HARMOOD W. BANNER, Trustee
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24053/page/174

[ainslie]

He was also the underwriter for a short-lived marine insurance company in Liverpool.
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[ShaunJ]

Just a possibility - a report of the arrest of a broker named Henry North in an unregulated "bucket shop" in New York in 1890:  http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F04E3DD153BE533A25754C0A9659C94619ED7CF


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market)

[ainslie]

That seems highly probable, given his past history.  Your detective skills are awesome!
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[ShaunJ]

As a postscript to that 1890 case, other papers report that he had "nothing to say" to the judge and was fined $5. 

[ainslie]

And I was thinking that he had been in Sing Sing or similar until 1900!
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