George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton,
PC (18 October 1664 – 15 April 1727), styled Lord Compton from 1664 to 1681, was a British
peer and politician.
Northampton was the son of
James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, and his wife Mary (née Noel). Prime Minister
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, (2 July 1743) was a British Whig statesman who served continuously in government from 1715 until his death. He sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1698 and 1728, and was then raised ...
, was his younger brother. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1681, aged 17. Lord Northampton later served as
Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire
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Lord Lieutenants of Warwickshire
*Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick 1569†...
from 1686 to 1687 and again from 1689 to 1727 and was
Constable of the Tower of London
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from 1712 to 1715. At the coronation of
William
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and
Mary
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in 1689, he bore the King's sceptre and cross. In 1702, he was admitted to the
Privy Council
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.
Lord Northampton married Jane Fox, daughter of
Sir Stephen Fox
Sir Stephen Fox (27 March 1627 – 28 October 1716) of Farley, Wiltshire, Farley in Wiltshire, of Redlynch, Somerset, Redlynch Park in Somerset, of Chiswick, Middlesex and of Whitehall, was a royal administrator and courtier to King Charles ...
and his first wife Elizabeth Whittle and half-sister of
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, PC (28 September 1705 – 1 July 1774), of Holland House in Kensington and of Holland House in Kingsgate, Kent, was a leading British politician. He identified primarily with the Whig faction. He held the posts o ...
, in 1686. She died on 10 June 1721. He married secondly Elizabeth, Lady Thorold, the widow of
Sir George Thorold, 1st Baronet, on 3 July 1726. She died aged 67 on 15 January 1750 and was buried with her parents,
Sir James Rushout, 1st Baronet
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Rushout was the fifth but only surviving son of ...
and his wife
Alice Pitt, at
Blockley
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The civil and ecclesiastical parish ...
,
Gloucestershire
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.
Cokayne, George Edward
George Edward Cokayne, (29 April 1825 – 6 August 1911), was an English genealogist and long-serving herald at the College of Arms in London, who eventually rose to the rank of Clarenceux King of Arms. He wrote such authoritative and standar ...
(1906)
Complete Baronetage
'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 9
Northampton died on 15 April 1727, aged 62, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son
James
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.
See also
List of deserters from James II to William of Orange
This is a list of the members of the British nobility and gentry, who in 1688 deserted King James II and pledged their allegiances to Prince William of Orange, as the events of the Glorious Revolution unfolded.
*Admiral Matthew Aylmer, who pla ...
Notes
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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George
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