George Compton, described by Horace Walpole as ‘a very silent person’,Notes to Horace Walpole’s ms poems, ex. inf. W. S. Lewis. was brought in for Tamworth and Northampton by his brother, the 5th Earl of Northampton. He voted consistently against the Government till Walpole’s fall, when he was made a lord of the Treasury, whose nominal head was his uncle, Lord Wilmington. When Pelham succeeded Wilmington in 1743 Compton was allowed to retain his office; but at the end of 1744 he was turned out with the rest of the Bath-Granville squadron. He was classed in 1746 as one of Bath’s followers and in 1747 as Opposition. He succeeded to the earldom of Northampton shortly before his death, 6 Dec. 1758.
