Henry Francis Compton (16 January 1872 – 11 April 1943) was a British Conservative politician.
[1] Compton was selected as Conservative candidate in succession to the sitting MP John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, who had succeeded to the Peerage as Baron Montagu of Beaulieu.
However, the Conservative government had collapsed the previous day, and the new prime minister Campbell-Bannerman would soon call a general election.
The following month, Henry Compton was defeated by Sir Robert Hobart by just 48 votes, thus becoming, after 46 days, the shortest-serving Member of Parliament whose tenure was not ended by death, and one of only a handful never to take their seats.
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