Lord Alwyne Compton (bishop)

Lord Alwyne Compton (18 July 1825 – 4 April 1906) was an Anglican bishop in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[1][2]

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 four years of this. In 1879, he was appointed Dean of Worcester,[5] and then in 1886 to the See[6] of Ely,[7][5] He held this position until 1905, when he resigned and retired to Canterbury, where he died the following year.[5]

References

  1. ^ Genuki
  2. ^ "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
  3. ^ Compton, Lord Alwyne in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
  4. ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  5. ^ a b c d B. H. Green, The Bishops and Deans of Worcester (Worcester 1979), 57.
  6. ^ Cambridgeshire History
  7. ^ British Library
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Grantham Munton Yorke		 Dean of Worcester
1879 – 1895		 Succeeded by
John Gott
Preceded by
James Russell Woodford		 Bishop of Ely
1886 – 1904		 Succeeded by
Frederic Henry Chase
16th Century

Henry Holbeach • John Barlow • Philip Hawford • Seth Holland • John Pedder • Thomas Wilson • Francis Willis • Richard Edes
17th Century
18th Century

Francis Hare • James Stillingfleet • Edmund Marten • John Waugh • Richard Wrottesley • William Digby • Robert Foley • St Andrew St John • Arthur Onslow
19th Century

John Jenkinson • James Hook • George Murray • John Peel • The Hon Grantham Yorke • Lord Alwyne Compton • John Gott • Robert Forrest
1908 onwards
Since 1908