Francis Compton
D.C.L

Doctor of Civil Law

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 (20 November 1824 – 24 October 1915) was an English lawyer and Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician.

Compton was the son of Henry Combe Compton

Henry Combe Compton

Henry Combe Compton was a British Conservative Party politician.He was elected at the 1835 general election as a Member of Parliament for South Hampshire, and held the seat until he stood down from the House of Commons at the 1857 general election.- External links :...

 M.P. of Minstead Manor House, Lyndhurst, Hants and his wife Charlotte Mills. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford

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 and became a Fellow of All Souls. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn

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 and Middle Temple

Middle Temple

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 in 1850. He was a J.P. for Hampshire.

At the 1880 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1880

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 Compton was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for South Hampshire. When this was divided under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885

Redistribution of Seats Act 1885

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, he was elected at the 1885 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1885

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 as MP for the New Forest

New Forest (UK Parliament constituency)

New Forest was a county constituency in Hampshire which elected one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....

, and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons

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 at the 1892 election

United Kingdom general election, 1892

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Compton lived at Manor House, Minstead, Lyndhurst and died at the age of 91. His son Henry Francis Compton

Henry Francis Compton

Henry Francis Compton was a British Conservative politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for New Forest at a by-election in 1905, but only weeks later lost the seat to the Liberals at the 1906 general election.Compton was born in 1872, the son of Henry Compton, of Minstead Manor House,...

 was later MP for New Forest. His sister Catherine married Admiral Sir Henry Codrington

Henry Codrington

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Cricket

Compton played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 for pre-county club Hampshire

Hampshire county cricket teams

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 as well as for the Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

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and the Gentlemen of the South.

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