Title:

Knight

Military Rank:

Major General

First Name:

William

Last Name:

Compton

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

post 1663

Inscription:

Inscription on floor vault
Sir William Compton knt. Master General of ye Ordinance Privy Colts Seller to King Charles of 2nd and Sonne to Spenser Earl of Northampton, lyeth here interred. He died ye 18 of October, 1663, ErATIS SUE38.

Inscription on Wall Memorial
HERE LIETH THE BODY OF SR WILLIAM COMPTON, THIRD SON TO THE RIGHT HNBLE SPENCER EARLE KNT OF NORTHAMPTON INGAGED IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF HIS AGE IN THE CIVIL WARS FOR KING CHARLES THE FIRST BY WHOM HE WAS MADE GOVERNOR OF BANDUBRY CASTLE ANNO 1645 AND IN THE YEAR 1648 MAIOR GENERAL OF HIS MATIES FORCES AT COLCHESTER AND UPON THE HAPPY RESTAURATION OF CHARLES THE SECOND ADMITTED ONE OF THE KINGS MOST HONBLE PRIVY COUNCEL AND MASTER GENERALL OF ALL HIS MAIESTYES ORDINANCE. HE MARRYED THE RIGHT ELIZABETH LADY ALINTON WIDDOW OF THE RIGHT HONBLE WILLIAM LORD ALINTON OF HORSEHEATH IN THE COVNTY OF CAMBRIDGE WITH WHOM HE LIVED TWELVE YEARS AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN THE 39TH YEARE OF HIS AGE THE 18TH OCTOBER ANNO DOMINI 1663

(From: Dawn Keen, et al, The Compton Project: Investigations Archaeological of the Compton Family Crypt, Compton Wynyates (Phoenix Exhumation Ltd 2015), Appendix B, p.39

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Average

Condition Description:

unknown as no photographic or descriptive evidence seen

Memorial Notes:

See:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/6040