Spencer Compton, 7th Marquess of Northampton


Spencer "Spenny" Douglas David Compton, 7th Marquess of Northampton is a British peer.

Family

Compton is the son of the Most Hon. William Compton, 6th Marquess of Northampton and Virginia Lucie Compton, née Heaton. The family seats are Castle Ashby House and Compton Wynyates.
The heir apparent to the marquessate and its subsidiary titles is Northampton's only son Daniel, Earl Compton. Since he has, so far, fathered no sons of his own, the heir apparent's heir presumptive is his first cousin James William Compton, son of the late Lord William James Bingham Compton, who has two daughters and one son by his wife Natasha Somers. The next heir is Alwyne Compton, the most senior grandson of Lord Alwyne Frederick Compton, the third son of the 4th Marquess; he is childless. His brother the late Robert "Robin" Compton left two sons, both of whom have two sons of their own.

Personal life

He was listed as having properties worth £120 million in the 2011 Estates Gazette Rich List. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2017, ranking the wealthiest people in the UK, he was listed with an estimated fortune of £110million. In 1985 he sold Adoration of the Magi by Andrea Mantegna at Christie's in London to the Getty Museum for a then-world record auction price of $10.5 million. In November 1993, the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court confirmed his claim to the ownership of the Sevso Treasure, a hoard of late Roman Empire silver.
He is a Freemason, and served as the Pro Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England from 2001 until March 2009.
He has been married six times.

Arms