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,[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.

References

  1. Genuki
  2. "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  3. "Compton, Lord Alwyne (CMTN843A)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  5. 1 2 3 4 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
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