Title:

Earl

Military Rank:

General

First Name:

James

Last Name:

Compton

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

post 1663

Inscription:

PMS / HERE LIETH THE BODY OF SIR WILLIAM COMPTON / KTN / THIRD SON TO THE RIGHT HON'BLE SPENCER / EARLE OF NORTHAMPTON / INGAGED IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF AGE IN THE CIVILL WARRS FOR KING CHARLES THE FIRST / BY WHOM WHEM HEE WAS MADE GOVERNOVR OF BANBVRY CASTLE / ANNO 1645 / AND IN THE YEAR 1648 MAJOR GENERALL OF HIS MA'TIES FORCES AT COLCHESTER / AND VPON THE HAPPY RESTAVRATIO'N OF CHARLES THE SECOND / ADMITTED ONE OF THE KINGS MOST HON'ABLE PRIVY COVNCEL / AND MASTER GENERALL OF ALL HIS MAJESTYES ORDINANCE. HE MARRIED THE RIGHT HON'ABLE ELIZABETH LADY ALINTON / WIDDOW OF THE RIGHT HON'ABLE WILLIAM LORD ALINTON OF HORSHEATH IN THE COVNTY OF CAMBRIDGE WITH WHOM HE LIVED TWELVE YEARES / AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN THE 39TH YEARE OF HIS AGE / THE 18TH OF OCTOBER ANNO DOMINI 1663.

(from: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/87150)

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

Third Earl of Northampton
See: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/46937

https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/87150