Spencer Compton was born on 1673 in Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire.
He was educated at St Paul's School, Westminster and Trinity College, Oxford.
Served as Speaker of the House of Commons, Paymaster General, and treasurer to the Prince of Wales.
Although his family were High Tories, he turned to the Whigs after a quarrel with his brother, the 4th Earl of Northampton.
In Parliament he soon stood out as prominent amongst the Whigs and began a partnership with Robert Walpole that would last for over forty years.
Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, served as Prime Minister from 1742 -43.
He died in 1743.
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