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:
David Henry Crompton (1873–1946) who married Lillian MacDonald Sheridan (1888–1970), and left three daughters and a son:
Bontë Romilly Crompton (1914–2002) who married Lt Col Gustavo Durán Martínez (1906–1969), their three daughters are Cheli Durán Ryan, an author; Lucy Durán, ethnomusicologist; and Jane Duran, poet.
Dr Belinda Booth Crompton (1920– ), a child psychiatrist, who married Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004), they divorced in 1969.
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]
