Lord Alwyne Compton (18 July 1825 – 4 April 1906) was an Anglican bishop in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[ 1] [ 2]
Life and career
Compton was the fourth son of Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton , and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge .[ 3] His first post was as Curate at Horsham ,[ 4] after which he was Rector of Castle Ashby , a post he held for 26 years.[ 5] He was also Archdeacon of Oakham for the last four years of this period. In 1879, he was appointed Dean of Worcester ,[ 5] and then in 1886 to the See [ 6] of Ely ,[ 5] [ 7] He held this position until 1905, when he resigned and retired to Canterbury, where he died the following year.[ 5]
Lord Alwyne Compton was Lord High Almoner 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.[ 8]
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