William Compton, 4th Marquess of Northampton

[1] He entered in the Royal Navy in 1831, served during the First Opium War[1] He retired from the active list in 1856 as captain.

[2] He assumed in 1851 by Royal licence the additional surname of Maclean and in 1878 upon succeeding to the titles that of Douglas.

Lord Northampton married Eliza Harriet, daughter of Admiral the Hon.

Lord Northampton survived his wife by twenty years and died on 11 September 1897, aged 78.

[2] Just prior to his death, Compton purchased a country house in the village of Tysoe in Warwickshire.