Sir Charles John Crompton (12 June 1797 – 30 October 1865) 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,[1] 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, fourth daughter of Thomas Fletcher, a Liverpool merchant, in 1832, and left four sons and three daughters:

  • Charles Crompton MA QC MP (1833–1890), married Florence Elizabeth Gaskell, daughter of Elizabeth Gaskell.
  • Mary Crompton (1834–1873), married Rev John Llewellyn Davies MA DD (1826–1918), among their children were
  • Theodore Llewelyn Davies MA (1870–1905)
  • Rosamund May Sale (1882–1997) who married Jean Auguste Yves Tinayre (1891–1972), known as Yves Tinayre,[2] a noted baritone singer and the son of the French artist and film-maker Louis Tinayre.[3]
  • Gerald Beesly (1901– ) who married Helen Chamberlain (1872–1922), a grand-daughter of Joseph Chamberlain
  • Oliver Beesly (1872–?)
  • Alfred Beesly (1873–?)
  • Dr Lewis Beesly FRCS (1877–?), co-author of 'A Manual of Surgical Anatomy'[5]
  • Albert Crompton (1844–1908), manager of the Ocean Steam Ship Company, who married Elinor Elizabeth Aikin (1849–1885), granddaughter of Charles Rochemont Aikin
  • Edward Crompton (1845–1915) who married Agnes Mary Berry (1846–1900), and left a son and three daughters.

References

  1. "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p194: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  2. Uncle Dave, Lewis. "Yves Tinayre artist biography". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  3. Luke, McKernan. "Louis Tinayre (1861–1942)". Who's Who of Victorian Cinema. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  4. "Robertson, Caroline Anna Croom (1837/8–1892), college administrator". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48679. Retrieved 18 July 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. Beesly, Lewis; Johnston, T B (1916). A Manual of Surgical Anatomy. New York: William Wood and Company.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Crompton, Charles John" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 13. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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