Constituency : Stratford-on-Avon 1885-6, Barnsley 1889-97
Lord William won the new seat of Stratford-on-Avon.
Lord William was the second son of the Marquess of Northampton. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge. Lord William worked in the Diplomatic Service then acted as private secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1880 and 1882.
Lord William was defeated in 1886. He was known as Earl Compton from 1887 when his elder brother died.
In 1890 William became an unlikely representative for Barnsley at a by-election.
In 1897 William succeeded his father and moved to the Lords.
William served on London County Council from 1889 to 1895.
In 1910 William was used as a special envoy to announce the accession of George V in foreign courts.
His last speech in the Lords supported reform of the Lords.
He died in Italy in 1913 aged 62.
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