Lord Alwyne Frederick Compton DL (5 June 1855 – 16 December 1911)[1] was a British Army officer who became a Liberal Unionist and then Unionist politician.
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Compton was the third but second eldest surviving son of Admiral William Compton, 4th Marquess of Northampton, and his wife Eliza, daughter of Admiral Sir George Elliot.[2] William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton, was his elder brother.[2]
He was educated at Eton[3] and entered the 31st Foot as a sub-lieutenant on 18 March 1874.[4] He exchanged to the Grenadier Guards on 12 May 1875.[5] Promoted to supernumerary lieutenant, Compton again exchanged into the 10th Hussars on 20 August 1879.[6] In May 1882, he became aide-de-camp to Lord Ripon, the Viceroy of India,[3] until the latter left office in February 1884, and was appointed full lieutenant on 28 November 1883.[7]
Compton subsequently took part in the British campaign in the Sudan in 1884, and fought at El Teb and Tamai.[3] He was appointed adjutant in March 1885,[8] and resigned his adjutantcy on 20 October 1886.[9] Compton married Mary Evelyn Violet, daughter of Robert Charles de Grey Vyner, in 1886.
He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1895 general election as the Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for the Biggleswade division of Bedfordshire.[1][10] Compton was re-elected unopposed in 1900,[10] but at the 1906 general election he was defeated by the Liberal Party candidate Arthur Black.[10] He was returned to the Commons at the January 1910 election as Unionist MP for Brentford,[11] and held the seat until his resignation on 15 March 1911 by the procedural device of appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.[12] During this time, he also fought with the Imperial Yeomanry during the Second Boer War.[3]
He died in December 1911, aged 56. Lady Alwyne Compton died in October 1957.
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Preceded by George W. E. Russell |
Member of Parliament for Biggleswade 1895 – 1906 |
Succeeded by Arthur Black |
Preceded by Vickerman Henzell Rutherford |
Member of Parliament for Brentford January 1910 – 1911 |
Succeeded by William Joynson-Hicks |