Sir Henry Compton
KB (c. 1584 – c. 1649) was an English politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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at various times between 1601 and 1640.
Compton was the son of
Henry Compton, 1st Baron Compton
Henry Compton, 1st Baron Compton (14 July 1544 – 10 December 1589), was an English peer and Member of Parliament.
Compton was the posthumous son of Peter Compton of Compton Wynyates and his wife Anne, daughter of George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shr ...
of
Compton Wynyates
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,
Warwickshire
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, and his second wife
Anne Spencer
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, daughter of Sir John Spencer of
Althorp
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,
Northamptonshire
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two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...
.
[ History of Parliament Online - Compton, Henry]
/ref> He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford
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, on 8 June 1599. In 1601, he was elected Member of Parliament
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for East Grinstead
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. He was of Lincoln's Inn
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in 1602, and was knighted to the Order of the Bath
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in 1603. He was an associate of the bench in 1604. He [ 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Colericke-Coverley', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 304-337. Date accessed: 1 March 2011]
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Compton was re-elected MP for East Grinstead in 1604, 1614 and 1621. He was a ranger of Ashdown Forest
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of ...
and a J.P. for Sussx. By 1624 he was Deputy Lieutenant. He was re-elected MP for East Grinstead in 1625, 1626 and 1628, sitting until 1629, when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. He was custos brevium, court of common pleas in about 1630.[
In April 1640 Compton was re-elected MP for East Grinstead in the ]Short Parliament
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Aft ...
.[ He was subject to a fine in the aftermath of the ]English Civil War
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.
Compton lived at Brambletye, Sussex.[ He died in or before July 1649, because on that date the committee for compounding ordered that the balance of his fine should be paid by the heirs to his estate.][
Compton married firstly Cecily Sackville, daughter of ]Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset
Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset (1561–1609) was an English aristocrat and politician, with humanist and commercial interests.
Life
He was the eldest son of Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, by Cecily, daughter of Sir John Baker. ...
; Cecily was his stepsister as a result of his mother's remarriage to the earl.[G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 265. ] They had three sons and three daughters. He married secondly Mary Browne, daughter of Sir George Browne of Battle, Sussex
Battle is a small town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the local government district of Rother District, Rother in East Sussex, England. It lies south-east of London, east of Brighton and east of Lewes. Hastings is to the sout ...
, and had four sons and two daughters.[
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References
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1580s births
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People from East Grinstead
English MPs 1601
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English MPs 1614
English MPs 1621–1622
English MPs 1625
English MPs 1626
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