Charles John Crompton
Sir Charles John Crompton was an English justice of the Queen's Bench.
Life
Crompton was born in Derby; he was the third son of Dr. Peter Crompton, and his second cousin Mary, daughter of John Crompton of Chorley Hall, Lancashire. Peter was a member of the Derby Philosophical Society and his father was a banker there.Crompton, having graduated with distinction at Trinity College, Dublin, was entered at the Inner Temple in 1817, after a short time spent in a Liverpool solicitor's office and, being called to the bar in 1821, went the northern circuit.
Without having taken silk, he was raised to the bench in February 1852 by Lord Truro, and knighted. He proved an excellent judge, especially in banco, and was the author of many decisions still quoted.
A strong Liberal in politics, like his father, he stood for parliament at Preston in 1832, and Newport (Isle of Wight) in 1847, but in both cases unsuccessfully.
Family
He married Caroline Fletcher, fourth daughter of Thomas Fletcher, a Liverpool merchant, in 1832, and left four sons and three daughters:- Charles Crompton MA QC MP, married Florence Elizabeth Gaskell, daughter of Elizabeth Gaskell.
- Mary Crompton, married Rev John Llewellyn Davies MA DD, among their children were
- Henry Crompton who married Lucy Henrietta Romilly, the daughter of John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly and Caroline Charlotte Otter
- Caroline Anna Crompton who married Professor George Croom Robertson
- Emily Crompton who married Professor Edward Spencer Beesly, and left four sons
- Albert Crompton, manager of the Ocean Steam Ship Company, who married Elinor Elizabeth Aikin, granddaughter of Charles Rochemont Aikin
- Edward Crompton who married Agnes Mary Berry, and left a son and three daughters.