Sir Charles John Crompton (12 June 1797 – 30 October 1865) was an English justice of the Queen's Bench.
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.
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.
He married Caroline Fletcher, fourth daughter of Thomas Fletcher, a Liverpool merchant, in 1832, and left four sons and three daughters: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed.