Social Victorians/People/Northampton

Also Known As

 * Family name: Compton
 * Marquess of Northampton
 * Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton (24 May 1828 – 17 January 1851)
 * Charles Douglas-Compton, 3rd Marquess of Northampton (17 January 1851 – 3 March 1877)
 * Admiral William Compton, 4th Marquess of Northampton (3 March 1877 – 11 September 1897)
 * Earl Compton (subsidiary title for the son of the Marquess of Northampton)
 * Charles John Spencer Compton (13 July 1849 – 6 September 1887)
 * William George Spencer Scott Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton (1887 and 1897)

Timeline
1850 August 28, Lord Alwyne Compton and Florence Caroline Anderson married.

1886 July 31, Lord Alwyne Frederick Compton and Mary Evelyn Violet Vyner married.

1897 July 2, Friday, Lord and Lady A. Compton attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House.



Costumes at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
Lord Alwyne Frederick Compton (at 434) and Lady Mary Compton (at 435) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Lady Alwyne was dressed as "Mme. de Chevreuse, Louis XIII." time, wearing a "dress in mauve satin, with white satin underskirt, embroidered in pearls and amethysts."

Madame de Chevreuse (December 1600 – 12 August 1679) was Marie Aimée de Rohan, French courtier actively involved with a number of very dangerous political intrigues. She was very close to Anne d'Autriche, Queen of France. She is shown wearing pearls in many of her portraits; one necklace shown in several portraits is made up of noticeably large pearls. The 17th-century portrait (right) of Marie de Rohan, Duchess of Chevreuse is currently in the Château de Dampierre.

London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company's portrait of "Lord Alwyne Frederick Compton as Sir William Compton — time of Charles I" in costume is photogravure #211 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Lord Alwyne Compton, M.P. as Sir Wm. Compton, time of Charles I."

Lord Alwyne Compton is probably dressed as Sir William Compton (1625 – 18 October 1663), a Cavalier — a royalist and in his case an army officer in the conflict leading up to the execution of King Charles I in 1649 — even though he was young when Charles I died.

Demographics

 * Nationality: British

Family

 * Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton (2 January 1790 – 17 January 1851)
 * Margaret Douglas-Maclean-Clephane ( – 2 April 1830)
 * 1) Lady Margaret Mary Frances Elizabeth Compton ( – 22 May 1858)
 * 2) Charles Douglas-Compton, 3rd Marquess of Northampton (26 May 1816 – 3 March 1877)
 * 3) Lady Marianne Margaret Compton (21 June 1817 – 9 February 1888)
 * 4) Admiral William Compton, 4th Marquess of Northampton (20 August 1818 – 11 September 1897)
 * 5) Lord Spencer Scott Compton (6 March 1821 – 21 May 1855)
 * 6) Rt. Rev. Lord Alwyne Compton (18 July 1825 – 4 April 1906)


 * Admiral William Compton, 4th Marquess of Northampton (20 August 1818 – 11 September 1897)
 * Eliza Elliot (c. 1820 – 4 December 1877)
 * 1) Lady Katrine Cecilia Compton (1845 – 23 March 1913)
 * 2) Lady Margaret Georgiana Compton (1847 – 15 November 1931)
 * 3) Charles John Spencer Compton, Earl Compton (13 July 1849 – 5 September 1887)
 * 4) William George Spencer Scott Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton (23 April 1851 – 15 June 1913)
 * 5) Lady Alice Elizabeth Compton (1854 – 17 June 1862)
 * 6) Lord Alwyne Frederick Compton (5 June 1855 – 16 December 1911)
 * 7) Lady Mabel Violet Isabel Compton (c. 1862 – 16 August 1961)
 * 8) Colonel Lord Douglas James Cecil Compton (15 November 1865 – 23 July 1944)


 * Rt. Rev. Lord Alwyne Compton (18 July 1825 – 4 April 1906)
 * Florence Caroline Anderson (– 24 March 1918)


 * Lord Alwyne Frederick Compton (5 June 1855 – 16 December 1911)
 * Mary Evelyn Violet Vyner ( – 22 October 1957)
 * 1) Major Edward Robert Francis Compton (14 December 1891 – 7 February 1977)
 * 2) Commander Clare George Vyner (31 March 1894 – 29 October 1989)