Constituency Dates
East Grinstead [1601], [1604], [1614], [1621], [1625], [1626], [1628], [1640 (Apr.)]
Family and Education
b. c. 1584, 3rd s. of Henry Compton I, Lord Compton of Compton Wyniates, Warws. being 1st by 2nd w. Anne, da. of Sir John Spencer of Althorp, Northants. educ. Christ Church Oxf. 1599; L. Inn 1602. m. (1) Cecily, da. of Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset, ?3s. 3da.; (2) Mary, da. of Sir George Browne of Battle, 4s. 2da. KB 1603.
Offices Held

Associate bencher, L. Inn 1604; custos brevium, court of common pleas c. 1630; ranger, Ashdown forest; j.p. Suss. dep. lt. by 1624.

Address
Main residence: Brambletye, East Grinstead, Suss.
biography text

It was his connexion with the Sackville family that secured Compton his parliamentary seat at East Grinstead, though his own residence was close by. His association with the Sackvilles began in boyhood, when, in 1592, his mother made a second—and disastrous—marriage to Robert Sackville, then a widower. His own marriage naturally strengthened the connexion.

Compton died in or before July 1649, when the committee for compounding ordered that the heirs to his estate should pay the balance of his fine. No will has been found.1Collins, Peerage, iii. 234; Horsfield, Suss. i. 388-9; Black Bk. L. Inn, ii. 84, 292; Suss. Arch. Colls. xvi; Cal. Comm. Comp. 1643-60, p. 1602.

Author
J.E.M.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Notes
  • 1. Collins, Peerage, iii. 234; Horsfield, Suss. i. 388-9; Black Bk. L. Inn, ii. 84, 292; Suss. Arch. Colls. xvi; Cal. Comm. Comp. 1643-60, p. 1602.