Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

HENRY COMPTON (1632-1713)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 814 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

HENRY See also:COMPTON (1632-1713)  , See also:English divine, was the See also:sixth and youngest son of the second See also:earl of See also:Northampton . He was educated at See also:Queen's See also:College, See also:Oxford, and then travelled in See also:Europe . After the restoration of See also:Charles II. he became See also:cornet in a See also:regiment of See also:horse, but soon quitted the See also:army for the See also:church . After a further See also:period of study at See also:Cambridge and again at Oxford, he held various livings . He was made See also:bishop of Oxford in 1694, and in the following See also:year was translated to the see of See also:London . He was also appointed a member of the Privy See also:Council, and entrusted with the See also:education of the two princesses—See also:Mary and, See also:Anne . He showed a liberality most unusual at the See also:time to See also:Protestant dissenters, whom he wished to reunite with the established church . He held several conferences on the subject with the See also:clergy of his See also:diocese; and in the See also:hope of influencing candid minds by means of the opinions of unbiassed foreigners, he obtained letters treating of the question (since printed at the end of See also:Stillingfleet's Unreasonableness of Separation) from Le Moyne, See also:professor of divinity at See also:Leiden, and the famous See also:French Protestant divine, See also:Jean See also:Claude . But to See also:Roman Catholicism he was strongly opposed . On the See also:accession of See also:James II. he consequently lost his seat in the council and his deanery in the See also:Chapel Royal; and for his firmness in refusing to suspend See also:John See also:Sharp, See also:rector of St See also:Giles's-in-the-See also:Fields, whose See also:anti-papal writings had rendered him See also:obnoxious to the See also:king, he was himself suspended . At the Revolution See also:Compton embraced the cause of See also:William and Mary; he performed the ceremony of their See also:coronation; his old position was restored to him; and among other appointments, he was chosen as one of the commissioners for revising the See also:liturgy . During the reign of Anne he remained a member of the privy council, and was one of the commissioners appointed to arrange the terms of the See also:union of See also:England and See also:Scotland; but, to his See also:bitter disappointment, his claims to the primacy were twice passed over .

He died at See also:

Fulham on the 7th of See also:July 1713 . He had conspicuous defects both in spirit and See also:intellect, but was benevolent and philanthropic . He was a successful botanist . He published, besides several theological See also:works, A See also:Translation from the See also:Italian of the See also:Life of Donna See also:Olympia Maladichini, who governed the Church during the time of See also:Pope See also:Innocent X., which was from the year 1644 to 1655 (1667), and A Translation from the French of the See also:Jesuits' Intrigues (1669) .

End of Article: HENRY COMPTON (1632-1713)
[back]
COMPSA (mod. Conza)
[next]
COMPTROLLER

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.