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Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton

1790 - 1851

This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.

Biographical notes

Patron of science and the arts.

National Gallery Trustee (1838–1851).

Slavery connections

No known connections with slavery.

Abolition connections

History of Parliament describes him as ‘A dilettante with humanitarian interests (particularly criminal law reform and the slave question)’. (R. G. Thorne, ‘COMPTON, Spencer Joshua Alwyne, Lord Compton (1790-1851), of Castle Ashby, Northants.’, in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History [online], London, 1964 -, 1790-1820, <https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/compton-spencer-joshua-alwyne-1790-1851> accessed 4 August 2021.)

Bibliography

J. Morrell, 'Compton, Spencer Joshua Alwyne, second marquess of Northampton', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/6037
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R. G. Thorne, 'COMPTON, Spencer Joshua Alwyne, Lord Compton (1790-1851), of Castle Ashby, Northants.', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, 1790-1820, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/compton-spencer-joshua-alwyne-1790-1851
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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