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| 1601 | Birth |  |
| Birth of Spencer Compton, son of the 1st Earl of Northampton
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| 1616 | Peerage | |
| 3rd Nov Created a Knight of the Bath
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| 1621 | Election | |
| Ludlow Elected Member of Parliament for Ludlow
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| 1621 | Master Robes | |
| Appointed Master of the Robes to the Prince of Wales
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| 1642 | Battle of Banbury | |
| 22nd Dec Banbury Attacked in Banbury by the parliamentary forces on December 22, but relieved by Prince Rupert of the Rhine the next day
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| 1643 | Battle of Hopton Heath | |
| 18th Mar Hopton Heath Joins forces with General Hastings prior to the battle of Hopton Heath
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| 19th Mar Hopton Heath Accompanied by three of his sons, marches out with his troops Compton engages Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet and Sir William Brereton at Hopton Heath
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| 19th Mar Hopton Heath Defeats the Roundheads under John Gell & William Brereton but killed in battle
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| 1643 | Death | |
| 19th Mar Hopton Heath Death of Spencer Compton, killed at the battle of Hopton Heath
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| 1643 | Siege of Lichfield | |
| Mar Lichfield Marches from Banbury to relieve Lichfield, and having failed there proceeds to Stafford, which he occupies
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| 1643 | Siege of Stafford | |
| Mar Stafford Marches from Banbury to relieve Lichfield, and having failed there proceeds to Stafford, which he occupies
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| 1683 | Marriage | |
| 28th July St James Marries Anne & Prince George of Denmark, at St James's Palace, St Anne's Day
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| 1688 | Succession | |
| London Compton & 6 other leading men in England invite William of Orange to claim the throne
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| 1696 | Election | |
| Eye Elected as a Tory but changes allegiance to the Whigs
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| Eye First elected as MP for the Eye Division of Suffolk
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