Peter Crompton

[8] Family properties included the manor of Mapplewell at Woodhouse Eaves in Leicestershire, acquired by Joshua Crompton.

It is printed as Appendix A by Jenny Graham in volume II of her work on British radicalism 1789–1799, in the form of an address "To the Friends of Free Enquiry, and the General Good", signed "S. Eyre" and given at a Derby meeting of the Society for Political Information.

Crompton chaired the meeting at which the second Derby Address, written by Henry Redhead Yorke and William Brooks Johnson, was approved to be sent to the National Constituent Assembly in France.

[19] Yorke, who had recently written a pro-slavery pamphlet, at this time reversed his position and wrote an abolitionist answer to it; he was more radical than the generally moderate Derby reformers, such as Ward.

[22] In the 1796 general election, Crompton stood as a candidate for Nottingham, receiving the most "plumper" votes in a three-cornered contest, but coming third behind the Tory Robert Smith and the Whig Daniel Coke.

[25] The Concentric Society were allied locally to Egerton Smith and the Liverpool Mercury, and nationally to Francis Burdett.

Wood himself was elected at Preston in 1826, Crompton supporting him amid violent scenes involving followers of William Cobbett.

He was an associate of William Strutt, who had a practical interest in Paine's iron bridge for local construction work on the River Derwent.

[46] The Unitarian congregation in Derby, which included Joseph and William Strutt, met at the Friar Gate Chapel.

[6] Mary attended some of the 1794 Treason Trials, hearing Thomas Erskine defend John Horne Tooke.