Family and Education
b. c. 1558, 1st s. of William Crompton, mercer, of Stafford, Staffs. and London, and Elizabeth, da. and h. of Thomas Boughton of Mardyke, Hornchurch, Essex.Grantees of Arms ed. W.H. Rylands (Harl. Soc. lxvi), 66; PROB 11/64, f. 234. educ. Shrewsbury 1567; St. Alban Hall, Oxf. 1577, aged 19, BA (Merton) 1579, MA 1581, DCL 1589; adv. 1590; L. Inn 1606. Reg. Shrewsbury Sch. ed. E. Calvert, i. 26; Al. Ox.; LI Admiss. m. Barbara (d. 4 Mar. 1642), Le Neve, Mon. Angl. i. 198. da. and h. of Richard Hudson, LLD, of London, 3s. 3da. Staffs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lxiii), 66. suc. fa. 1582; PROB 11/64, f. 234. Kntd. 23 July 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 114. bur. 5 Feb. 1609 5 Feb. 1609. Boyd’s London Burials, Soc. Gen. transcript, MX/R235, p. 227.
Offices Held

Commr. poor prisoners 1590–1600; APC, 1590–1, p. 49; 1596–7, p. 13; 1599–1600, p. 644. adv.-gen. 1603–d.; CSP Dom. 1603–10, pp. 11, 14; C66/1609. judge of Admlty. 1606–d.; HCA 1/32/1, ff. 59, 61, 66, 90; HCA 30/1035, pt. 1, f. 3; HMC Hatfield, xviii. 167, 224; Lincs. AO, Worsley MS 1/30; B.P. Levack, Civil Lawyers, 222–3. master in Chancery 1608–d.; T.D. Hardy, Principal Officers of Chancery, 89. commr. administering oath to travellers abroad 1608. C66/1787.

Commr. piracy, Dorset 1601 – 05, London and home counties 1603 – 06, Devon 1606, Exeter 1607, Cornw. 1607; C181/1, ff. 12v, 62v, 67, 114; 181/2, ff. 12, 25v, 52, 56. member, Doctors’ Commons 1605; G.D. Squibb, Doctors’ Commons, 168. chan. London dioc. 1605–d.; Levack, 222. vic.-gen. Canterbury prov. 1605–d.; Ibid. 222. commr. sewers, London and Mdx. 1606, C181/2, f. 20; Lansd. 168, f. 151v. oyer and terminer, the Verge 1606 – 07, London and Mdx. 1608, C181/2, ff. 13v, 57v, 71v, 72v. policies and assurances, London 1607–8;C181/2, ff. 51v, 70. j.p. Mdx. by 1608–d.; SP14/33, f. 42v; J.H. Gleason, JPs in Eng. 254. commr. gaol delivery, Newgate 1608.C181/2, f. 73.

Main residences: London; Cresswell, Staffs.
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Commons 1604-1629
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CROMPTON, Sir Thomas (c.1558-1609)

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Oxford 1644
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