Alwyne Frederick Compton
18 July 1825 -
4 April 1906

Family

Lord Alwyne was the fourth son of Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, second marquis of Northampton, and Margaret Clephane. In 1850 he married Florence Caroline Anderson. They had no children.

Education

He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he graduated in 1848.

Church Appointments and Service

He was ordained deacon in 1850 and priest in the following year. He served as curate at Horsham until his appointment (by his eldest brother, now third marquis of Northampton) to the rectory of Castle Ashby. This benefice he held until his appointment in 1875 to the archdeaconry of Oakham. Four years later he was nominated Dean of Worcester. On 2 February 1886 he was consecrated Bishop of Ely, which position he held until resigning it in July 1905.

Noteworthy Publications

He collected from various places documents connected with the See of Ely, had them catalogued, and then published them.

Footnote

"Lord Alwyne increasingly won the respect and affection both of the clergy and the laity of his diocese during his episcopate . . . by his unostentatious liberality, his frankness and indifference to mere popularity, his unaffected modesty, and his unflagging zeal and industry in his episcopal work." -- DNB 1901-11: 399