Sir Rt Hon. Earl Spencer Compton KG PC KB
(1673-1743)
Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath, Member of Parliament (1698-1710), Member of Parliament (1713-1715), Member of Parliament (1715-1728), Speaker of the House of Commons (1715-1727), Privy Counsellor (from 1716), 1st Baron Wilmington (1728-1730), 1st Earl of Wilmington (from 1729), Lord Privy Seal (1730), 1st Viscount Pevensey (1730-1743), 551st Knight of the Order of the Garter (from 1733), and 2nd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1742-1743)
Died aged c. 70
Wikidata Wikipedia Find A GraveSpencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, KG, PC (c. 1674 – 2 July 1743) was a British Whig statesman who served continuously in government from 1715 until his death. He sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1698 and 1728, and was then raised to the peerage and sat in the House of Lords. He served as the prime minister of Great Britain from 1742 until his death in 1743. He is considered to have been Britain's second prime minister, after Robert Walpole, but worked closely with the Secretary of State, Lord Carteret, in order to secure the support of the various factions making up the government.
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