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16 de abr. de 2024 · Spencer Compton, earl of Wilmington was a British politician, favourite of King George II and nominal prime minister of Great Britain from February 1742 to July 1743. Third son of James Spencer, 3rd earl of Northampton, he first entered Parliament in 1698; in 1715 he became speaker of the House of.
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Hace 2 días · 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 2 días · Wilmington was named by Proprietor Thomas Penn after his friend Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, who was prime minister during the reign of George II of Great Britain. As of the 2020 census , the city's population was 70,898. [5]
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22 de abr. de 2024 · Spencer was named after his great-great-uncle, British Prime Minister Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1674-1743), who was considered Britain’s 2nd Prime Minister in history; the 1st was fellow Whig Party politician Robert Walpole.
Hace 3 días · Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington: c. 1674–1743 1733 Prime Minister 1742–1743 552 William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex: 1697–1743 1738 Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire 553 James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave: 1684–1741 1738 Ambassador to France 554 Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel: 1720–1785 1741 555
30 de abr. de 2024 · Spencer Compton, 2nd earl of Northampton (born May 1601—died March 19, 1643, Hopton Heath, Shropshire, Eng.) was a Royalist commander during the English Civil Wars. The son of William Compton, 1st earl in the Compton line (whom he succeeded in 1630), he warmly supported King Charles I.
23 de abr. de 2024 · His second marriage to Mary Noel (died 1719) produced three sons and two daughters, including his heir George (1664–1727), Mary Sackville, Countess of Dorset (1669–1691) and Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, who was briefly Prime Minister from 1742 to 1743.
