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.
William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester
William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester( bef. 1560 – 4 February 1629) was an English nobleman, the son of William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester and Anne or Agnes Howard.
He was styled Lord St. John from 1576 to 1598.
He was summoned to Parliament on 16 January 1581 in his father's barony as Lord St. John.
On 24 November 1598, he succeeded his father as 4th Marquess of Winchester.
Paulet experienced great financial difficulties arising from his magnificent style of living and his lavish entertainment of Elizabeth I at Basing House.
William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton
William George Spencer Scott Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton, KG( 23 April 1851 – 15 June 1913), known as Lord William Compton from 1877 to 1887 and as Earl Compton from 1887 to 1897, was a British peer and Liberal politician.
William Compton, 4th Marquess of Northampton
Admiral William Compton, 4th Marquess of Northampton, (20 August 1818 – 11 September 1897), known as Lord William Compton from 1828 to 1877, was a British peer and naval commander.
Northampton was born at York Place, Marylebone, London, the second son of Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton, and his wife Margaret (née Douglas-Maclean-Clephane).
He entered in the Royal Navy in 1831, served during the First Opium War with China (1839–42)
, The campaign was vaguely given in this work as "the Chinese War", but has been ascertained to be the First War because the second broke out in the year he retired from the active list in 1856 as captain.
He was subsequently promoted rear admiral in 1869, and admiral in 1880 on the retired list.
In 1877 he succeeded his elder brother in the marquessate and entered the House of Lords.
Northampton was honoured on 9July 1885 when he was made a Knight of the Garter.
He assumed in 1851 by Royal licence the additional surname of Maclean and in 1878 upon succeeding to the titles that of Douglas.
Helena, Marchioness of Northampton
Elin Ulfsdotter Snakenborg, Marchioness of Northampton, also known as Helena, and Helena the Red for her red hair,( 1548/ 1549 – 10 April 1635) was a Swedish- born noblewoman, Maid of Honour of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and Marchioness of Northampton by her marriage to William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton.
John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute
John Crichton- Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, KT( 20 June 1881 – 25 April 1947), was a Scottish peer.
John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale
John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale,( 16959 December 1762) was a Scottish nobleman.
Simon Isaacs, 4th Marquess of Reading
Simon Rufus Isaacs, 4th Marquess of Reading( born 18 May 1942), is a British peer, banker and philanthropist.
John Crichton-Stuart, 5th Marquess of Bute
John Crichton- Stuart, 5th Marquess of Bute( 4 August 1907 – 14 August 1956) was the son of John Crichton- Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute and Augusta Bellingham.
Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton (2 January 1790 – 17 January 1851), known as Lord Compton from 1796 to 1812 and as Earl Compton from 1812 to 1828, was a British nobleman and patron of science and the arts.

Question: When did William Compton, 4Th Marquess Of Northampton's father die?
Answer: 17 January 1851