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, 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 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: