COMPTON, Spencer-Joshua-Aboyne, Marquis of Northampton, was born in 1790, and received his education at Trinity College, Cambridge. On quitting the university he was returned to parliament for the town of Northampton, and distinguished himself by the independence and liberality of his opinions. He succeeded to the family title in 1828, when residing in Italy, where he exerted himself on behalf of the patriots of Lombardy and Naples. On the death of Lady Northampton he returned to England and resumed his place in parliament. He was elected President of the Royal Society after the retirement of the Duke of Sussex from that office, and became known to the literary world through the pages of The Tribute, a work which he afterwards edited for the benefit of the family of its founder. He was known also as a lover of science, and especially attached to mineralogy and geology. The Marquis of Northampton died January 17, 1851.