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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 1 día · 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
Hace 4 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.
Hace 3 días · Spencer was a merchant who had been a pioneer in the Levant trade and Lord Mayor in 1594–5. He already owned Crosby Hall in the City and an estate at Canonbury, where he preferred to live. Against his wishes, his only surviving child, Elizabeth, married William, 2nd Lord Compton, later the 1st Earl of Northampton, also in 1599.
Hace 5 días · The property came into Northampton hands through the marriage of the 2nd Lord Compton, later 1st Earl of Northampton, to Elizabeth Spencer, daughter and heiress of Sir John Spencer who had bought it in 1599.
Hace 2 días · A sparkling woman of a certain age surprised me a bit as I, Lord Wilmington, waited in the appliance section in the Lowe’s on Carolina Beach Road recently. It’s not just that she came up to my waist. Being a willowy 6 foot, 8 inches tall with hair artfully arranged on top, I had long ago grown accustomed to towering over my subjects.
Hace 3 días · His daughter (his only child) eloped with Lord Compton, afterwards Earl of Northampton. According to the legend she escaped from her father's house, secreted in a baker's basket. From her marriage the Marquesses of Northampton, Bishop Compton of London and two Prime Ministers (the Earl of Wilmington and Spencer Perceval) were descended. 1584.
