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Hace 1 día · The city was founded in the 1730s, and after going through a series of different names (New Carthage, New London, Newton), its name became Wilmington in 1740, named after Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington. The area along the river had been inhabited by various successive cultures of indigenous peoples for thousands of years.
Hace 5 días · A small agricultural hamlet for its first 100 years, it developed into a prosperous port and market town after the Quakers moved there in the 1730s. The Quakers secured a borough charter from Thomas Penn, the proprietor of Pennsylvania, who named the town (1739) for his friend Spencer Compton, earl of Wilmington.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 2 días · Letter of direction for 100l. to Spencer Compton: out of Civil List money; & is to be paid over to William Popple junr. towards the relief & subsistence of an Evangelical minister & 40 poor Protestants lately arrived from the Palatinate.
Hace 4 días · James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton FRS (19 August 1622 – 15 December 1681), was an English peer, politician and author, who fought for the Royalists during the First English Civil War. He succeeded his father Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton when he was killed in March 1643 at the Battle of Hopton Heath .
Hace 3 días · Admiral of the Fleet Albert Victor Nicholas Louis Francis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family.
Hace 2 días · Background. King Edward II of England had court favourites who were unpopular with his nobility, such as Piers Gaveston and Hugh Despenser the Younger. Gaveston was killed during a noble rebellion against Edward in 1312, while Despenser was hated by the English nobility. [2] .
Hace 2 días · In 1729 the southern abuttal of the house on the site of the northern annexe is described as the house of "Rob t Jacomb Esq," so that the latter, not Cornwallis or his successor, Spencer Compton, was resident there.
