Charles Crompton
Q.C. (4 February 1833 – 25 June 1890) was an English barrister and
Liberal politician.
Crompton was born at St Pancras, London, the son of Sir Charles Crompton, a Judge of the Queen's Bench and his wife Caroline Fletcher of Liverpool. He was educated at
University College School,
University College, London, and at
Trinity College, Cambridge (4th Wrangler 1855, MA 1858).[1] He was a Fellow of the college in 1856 and was called to the bar at
Inner Temple in 1864. Crompton stood unsuccessfully for parliament at
West Cheshire in the
1874 general election. He was a member of the commission to investigate alleged corrupt practices at
Knaresborough in 1880.[2] and became became a
Q.C. in 1882.
At the
1885 general election, Crompton was elected
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Leek in
Staffordshire. He lost the seat at the
1886 general election, and did not stand again.[3]
Crompton lived at Manchester and died at the age of 57.
Crompton married Florence Elizabeth Gaskell, daughter of
Elizabeth Gaskell in 1863.