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The Right Reverend


Lord Alwyne Compton


Bishop of Ely
DioceseEly
In office1886–1905
PredecessorJames Woodford
SuccessorFrederic Chase
Other post(s)Dean of Worcester (1879–1886)
Personal details
Born(1825-07-18)18 July 1825
Died4 April 1906(1906-04-04) (aged 80)
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
ParentsSpencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge

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

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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 CurateatHorsham,[4] after which he was RectorofCastle 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]ofEly,[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]

References

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  1. ^ Genuki Archived 2008-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
  • ^ "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  • ^ "Compton, Lord Alwyne (CMTN843A)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  • ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  • ^ a b c d B. H. Green, The Bishops and Deans of Worcester (Worcester 1979), 57.
  • ^ "Cambridgeshire History". Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
  • ^ British Library
  • ^ "Compton, Lord Alwyne". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32523. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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    Church of England titles
    New office Archdeacon of Oakham
    1875–1879
    Succeeded by

    Prideaux Lightfoot

    Preceded by

    Grantham Yorke

    Dean of Worcester
    1879–1886
    Succeeded by

    John Gott

    Preceded by

    James Woodford

    Bishop of Ely
    1886–1905
    Succeeded by

    Frederic Chase


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