Lord Alwyne Compton (18 July 1825 – 4 April 1906) was an

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in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Life and career

Compton was the fourth son of Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton, and was educated at Eton and

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. His first post was as

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, after which he was Rector of Castle Ashby, a post he held for 26 years.B. H. Green, ''The Bishops and Deans of Worcester'' (Worcester 1979), 57. He was also Archdeacon of Oakham for the last four years of this period. In 1879, he was appointed

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, and then in 1886 to the See of Ely, He held this position until 1905, when he resigned and retired to Canterbury, where he died the following year. Lord Alwyne Compton was

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from 1882 to 1906. On 28 August 1850 Lord Alwyne Compton married Florence Caroline Anderson (d.1918), eldest daughter of Robert Anderson, a Brighton clergyman, and his wife, the Hon. Caroline Dorothea Shore. They remained childless.

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* 1825 births People from Northamptonshire People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Bishops of Ely Deans of Worcester Archdeacons of Oakham 19th-century Church of England bishops 20th-century Church of England bishops 1906 deaths Younger sons of marquesses Alwyne {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub