William Compton, 6th Marquess of Northampton
William Bingham Compton, 6th Marquess of Northampton, DSO( 6 August 1885 – 30 January 1978), known as Earl Compton from 1897 to 1913, was a British peer and soldier.
Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore
Alexander Edward Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore( 1 June 1804 – 15 July 1845) was the son of George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore.
On 27 September 1836 in Frankfurt, Germany, he married Lady Catherine Herbert, daughter of the 11th Earl of Pembroke.
They had four children:
Hamilton Boyle, 6th Earl of Cork
Hamilton Boyle, 6th Earl of Cork and 6th Earl of Orrery( 3 February 1729 – 17 January 1764) was the son of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Lady Henrietta Hamilton.
He inherited the titles of 6th Earl of Cork and Orrery and 3rd Baron Boyle of Marston from his father in 1762.
He served in the Parliament of Great Britain as Member of Parliament( MP) for Warwick between 1751 and 1762, and represented Charleville in the Irish House of Commons between 1759 and 1760.
He was unmarried and was succeeded by his brother.
Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton, KG( 25 March 1341 – 16 January 1373) was the son of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton and Elizabeth de Badlesmere, and grandson of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford by Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I.
He became heir to the Earldom of Hereford after the death of his childless uncle Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford.
Following King Peter
I's visit to England, Humphrey participated in the sack of Alexandria in 1365.
His wife and the mother of his daughters was Joan Fitzalan, daughter of Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster, whom he married after 9 September 1359.
On his death, his great estates were divided between his two surviving daughters:
Spencer Compton, 8th Earl of Northampton
Spencer Compton, 8th Earl of Northampton (16 August 1738 – 7 April 1796) was a British peer and Member of Parliament.
Northampton was the younger son of the Hon.
Charles Compton, third son of George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton and Mary Lucy.
He was educated at Westminster School from 1746.
He was elected to the House of Commons for Northampton in 1761, a seat he held until 1763 when he succeeded his elder brother in the earldom and entered the House of Lords.
He also served as a Groom of the Bedchamber to George III (1760–63), as Recorder of Northampton from 1763 to his death and as Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire from 1771 to death.
Lord Northampton married Jane, daughter of Henry Lawton, in 1758.
He died in April 1796, aged 57, and was succeeded in his titles by his son Charles, who was created Marquess of Northampton in 1812.
Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton
Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton, DL( 22 July 1737 – 18 October 1763) was a British peer and diplomat.
He was the eldest son of Hon. Charles Compton, in turn youngest son of George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton, and his wife Mary, only daughter of Sir Berkeley Lucy, 3rd Baronet.
Compton was educated at Westminster School and went then to Christ Church, Oxford.
In 1758, he succeeded his uncle George Compton as earl and was elected Recorder of Northampton.
He received a Doctor of Civil Law by the University of Oxford in the following year and was nominated a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Northamptonshire.
In 1761, during the coronation of King George III of the United Kingdom, Compton was the Bearer of the Ivory Rod with the Dove.
Subsequently he was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Venice with his introduction in May 1763, died only few months later.
On 13 September 1759, he married Lady Ann Somerset, eldest daughter of Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort.
Their only child Elizabeth married George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington.
His wife died at Naples in May 1763 and Compton survived her until October, aged only 26.
Both were buried in the family's vault in Compton, Northamptonshire.
He was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother Spencer.
George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton
George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton, PC (18 October 1664 – 15 April 1727), styled Lord Compton from 1664 to 1681, was a British peer and politician.
Northampton was the son of James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, and his wife Mary (née Noel).
Prime Minister Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, was his younger brother.
He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1681, aged 17.
Lord Northampton later served as Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire from 1686 to 1687 and again from 1689 to 1727 and was Constable of the Tower of London from 1712 to 1715.
At the coronation of William and Mary in 1689 he bore the King's sceptre and cross.
In 1702 he was admitted to the Privy Council.
Lord Northampton married Jane Fox, daughter of Sir Stephen Fox and his first wife Elizabeth Whittle and half-sister of Henry Fox,
1st Baron Holland, in 1686.
She died on 10 June 1721.
He married secondly Elizabeth, Lady Thorold, the widow of Sir George Thorold, 1st Baronet, on 3 July 1726.
She died aged 67 on 15 January 1750, and was buried with her parents, Sir James Rushout, 1st Baronet, and his wife Alice Pitt, at Blockley, Gloucestershire.
Northampton died on 15 April 1727, aged 62, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son James.
George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton
George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton (1692 – 6 December 1758), known as the Honourable George Compton until 1754, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1754.
Compton was the second son of George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton, and Jane, daughter of Sir Stephen Fox of Farley, Wiltshire.
Prime Minister Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, was his uncle and Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, his first cousin.
He was educated at Eton College from 1706 to 1707 and then joined the army.
He was cornet in the Royal Horse Guards in 1707 and guidon and major in the 2nd Life Guards in 1713.
He was on the reserve list in 1715.
Compton was returned as Member of Parliament for Tamworth at a by-election in January 1727.
At the 1727 British general election, he was returned as MP for Northampton.
He served briefly as a Lord of the Treasury in 1742.
In 1754 he succeeded his elder brother in the earldom and vacated his seat in the House of Commons to enter the House of Lords.
Lord Northampton died childless in December 1758 and was succeeded in his titles by his nephew Charles.
Claudius Amyand (MP)
Claudius Amyand( 10 August 1718 – 1 April 1774) was an English Whig politician and government official.
He was the eldest son of Claudius Amyand, a distinguished surgeon and huguenot, on 10 August 1718.
Educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, he attended Lincoln's Inn and was called to the bar in 1742.
Appointed Keeper of the King's Library in 1745, he was elected Member of Parliament for Tregony in the general election of 1747.
He was appointed junior under secretary to the Duke of Newcastle in 1750, becoming senior under-secretary to the Earl of Holderness the following year.
He was offered the seat at Bossiney for the election of 1754, but declined due to a lack of funds.
Instead, he was elected at Sandwich.
He retained his office under Thomas Robinson and Henry Fox until William Pitt removed him to the Board of Customs in 1756.
He served on that board until 1765 when he became Receiver of the Land Tax for Middlesex and London, a post he held until his death.
On 26 November 1761 he married Frances, the widow of George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton.
She was described by Claudius' brother as" a very amiable woman with a jointure of £ 2,500 per annum."
The couple had no children.
Claudius Amyand died in London on 1 April 1774.
Joan Fitzalan, Countess of Hereford
Joan FitzAlan, Countess of Hereford, Countess of Essex and Countess of Northampton( 1347 – 7 April 1419) was the wife of the 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex and 2nd Earl of Northampton.
She was the mother of Mary de Bohun, the first wife of Henry of Bolingbroke who later reigned as King Henry IV, and Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester.
She was the maternal grandmother of King Henry V.
In 1400, she gave the order for the beheading of the Earl of Huntingdon in revenge for the part he had played in the execution of her brother, the 11th Earl of Arundel.
The estates which comprised Joan's large dowry made her one of the principal landowners in Essex, where she exercised lordship, acting as arbitrator and feoffee in property transactions.

Question: What is the date of birth of George Compton, 6Th Earl Of Northampton's father?
Answer: 18 October 1664