Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, KG, PC (1673 – 2 July 1743) was a British Whig statesman who served continuously in government from 1715 until...

Earl of Wilmington was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1730 for the politician Spencer Compton, 1st Baron Wilmington, who later...

Henry Compton, sixth son of the second Earl of Northampton, was Bishop of London. Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Prime Minister of Great Britain...

War. He succeeded his father Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton when he was killed in March 1643 at the Battle of Hopton Heath. After the war ended...

of the 4th Earl of Northampton. Spencer was a Compton family name; Catherine Compton's great-uncle Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, had been prime...

the birthplace and burial place of Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, considered to be the second Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The house...

after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister during the reign of George II of Great Britain. As of the 2020 census, the...

President of the Council from 1751 to 1763 and worked closely with the Prime Minister of the country, Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, to manage...

head of the ministry was Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, until his death in 1743. He was succeeded in the role of prime minister by Henry Pelham...

was a British peer and politician. Northampton was the son of Spencer Compton, 8th Earl of Northampton, and his wife Jane (née Lawton). He was educated...

colonial governor of New Hampshire. It was named in honor of Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington. Wilmington is the home of Haystack Mountain Ski...

that is now part of Wilmington. Jaquith settled in an area of Billerica that became part of Wilmington in 1740. Minutemen from Wilmington responded to the...

incorporated with a new name, Wilmington, in honor of Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington. Some early settlers of Wilmington came from the Albemarle and...

6th Duke of Beaufort KG Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington KG KB PC Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guildford...

Minister – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (Whig) (until 2 July); Henry Pelham (Whig) (starting 27 August) 21 February – premiere in London of George...

February); Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (Whig) (starting 16 February) January – the House of Commons votes on the alleged rigging of the Chippenham...

Lord Wilmington was two-greats uncle of Spencer Perceval, whose mother, Catherine (née Compton), Baroness Arden, was a blood great-niece of Wilmington. The...

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Wilmington Square is a garden square in Clerkenwell, Central London. It is bounded by Regency and Victorian terraces, most of which are listed buildings...

Curzon, 6th Earl Howe. Her paternal grandparents were Richard Curzon, 4th Earl Howe and, his first wife, Lady Georgiana Elizabeth Spencer-Churchill (fifth...

Database. University of Cambridge. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Compton, Spencer" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886...

Mirror". Find Articles. Hanham, A. A. "Compton, Spencer, earl of Wilmington (c.1674–1743)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online). Oxford University...

Earl of Huntingdon is a title which has been created several times in the Peerage of England. The medieval title (1065 creation) was associated with the...

daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan (b. 1673) July 2 – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, British politician, Prime Minister of the United...

minister, after Robert Walpole and the Earl of Wilmington. Pelham's premiership was relatively uneventful in terms of domestic affairs, although it was during...

son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville and Lady Harriet Cavendish, daughter of Lady Georgiana Spencer and William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire...

He was replaced by Spencer Compton, Lord Wilmington, whom George had originally considered for the premiership in 1727. Wilmington, however, was a figurehead;...

reversing the pro-Tory landslide of the previous election, with 341 Whigs and 217 Tories. Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, the Whig member for Sussex...

incorporates the town of Newton as Wilmington, North Carolina, named for Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington and patron of Royal Governor Gabriel...

Dacre 2nd son of Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer Grandson of William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale Grandson of George Bridgeman, 2nd Earl of Bradford Eldest...