Thomas Crompton (died 1601)

Thomas Crompton (died 1601), was an English politician.

Life

Crompton was the second son of John Crompton of Prestall, Deane, Bolton, Lancashire{{cite web|url =http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/crompton-thomas-ii-1601|title= CROMPTON, Thomas II (d.1601), of Bennington, Herts., Hounslow, Mdx. and Farringdon, London.|publisher=History of Parliament Online|access-date = 3 January 2024}} and subsequently of London,{{cite book|title=Middlesex pedigrees, as collected by Richard Mundy in Harleian ms. no. 1551|publisher=Harliean Society|volume=65|date=1914|page=164}} and his wife Anne, daughter of Ralph Ashton of [Great Lever], Lancs.{{cite book|title=Remains, historical & literary, connected with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester|publisher=Chetham Society|volume=81|date=1870|page=28}}

By 1580 Crompton was working as chirographer of the Court of Common Pleas, when he was granted permission to build a new Fines Office in the grounds of the Inner Temple.{{cite book|title=The Inner Temple: Its Early History, as Illustrated by Its Records, 1505-1603|first=F.A.|last=Inderwick|date=1896|page=310}} The buildings were erected in Middle Temple Lane and known as Crompton's Building {{sfn|Inderwick|1896|p=lxxiii}} and Crompton was granted admission to the Inner Temple.

By 1589 he had become an agent for Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. It was presumably to the Earl's influence that he owed his parliamentary seats for Steyning in 1589, Radnor in 1593 and for both Leominster and Beverley in 1597. In the latter case it is not recorded which constituency he represented.

He made his will on 24 October 1601 and had died by 31 October, when John Chamberlain reported the death of "Crompton of the Fine Office".{{cite book|title=The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, 1541-1895|first=William Retlaw|last=Williams|date=1895|page=178}}

Family

He married Mary, the daughter of Robert Hodgson of London. By 1601 he had 4 sons and 7 daughters. His daughter Mary married William Gee, recorder of Beverley in 1597.{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/gee-william-1561-1611|title=GEE, William (1561-1611), of Bishop Burton, nr. Beverley, Yorks.|access-date=3 January 2024}}