John II, on 8 Mar., in favour of a Court-inspired motion to censure the pamphlet, A Letter from Sir Rowland Gwynne*, and reported from a conference with the Lords on this matter on 11 Mar. 1706 on the regency bill, acting as a teller in favour of one of the Lords’ amendments to the ‘place clause’.
He supported the Court in the proceedings of 18 Feb. 1705, and was himself the Court Whig candidate for the chair of the elections committee on 7 Nov., when he defeated the Tory (Sir) Gilbert Dolben, subsequently reporting many election cases to the House. 1Ĭompton naturally voted for Smith in the division on the Speakership on 25 Oct. In a list of about June the following year he was classified as a ‘Churchman’. Forecast as likely to oppose the Tack, he duly voted against it or was absent on 28 Nov. Compton was also a member of the Kit-Cat Club. It fell to Compton in October 1704 to press Walpole to come up to Parliament for the start of the session. By now he had established himself among the more prominent Whigs in the Commons, his circle of political friends including John Smith I*, Lord Hartington (William Cavendish*), and not least Robert Walpole II*, to whom he was particularly close. 1703 in favour of agreeing with the Lords’ amendments to the bill for enlarging the time for taking the Abjuration. In the first session of the 1702 Parliament he managed a private bill, and voted on 13 Feb. 1702, for leave for a bill to permit the poll for the Somerset county election to be held at Taunton and Wells.
Classed with the Whigs in Robert Harley’s* list of the 1701–2 Parliament, he was again a teller on 12 Feb. On he appeared as a teller on the Whig side against addressing the King for an answer to the previous address for the removal of Somers and the other three Whig lords, and on 3 June 1701 was given leave of absence for three weeks to recover his health. Classed as a Court supporter and for no accountable reason as a placeman in lists of the new Parliament in 1698, and also in early 1700 as being in the Junto interest, Compton took some time to make his mark in the House.
It may have been through Cornwallis that Compton became connected at about this time with Lord Somers (Sir John*), to whose electioneering efforts at Reigate in 1698 Compton lent his assistance, acquiring a burgage there shortly before the poll. Charles Cornwallis*) at a by-election for Eye, in all likelihood as a favour to Cornwallis’ grandfather Sir Stephen Fox*, one of whose daughters had married Compton’s elder brother, and who had thereafter taken a close and avuncular interest in the family’s affairs. He was eventually brought into Parliament three years later by Lord Cornwallis (Hon. BiographyĪ solitary Whig in a family of High Church Tories, Compton stood unsuccessfully at East Grinstead in 1695, on the interest of his kinsman the Earl of Dorset (Charles Sackville†). Paymaster of Queen’s pensions 1707–13 treasurer to Prince George of Denmark 1707–8 treasurer to Prince of Wales 1715–27 PC 6 July 1716 paymaster-gen. of privileges and elections 1705–10 Speaker of House of Commons 1715–27. of James Compton†, 3rd Earl of Northampton, by Mary, da.
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