"and a stand at Lord's Cricket Ground are both named in his honour. Compton was born and brought up in what was then the urban district of Hendon, which later became part of Greater London. He was the second son and youngest child of Henry Ernest Compton and Jessie Anne Duthie; he had one older brother, Leslie Harry (born 1912) and one older sister, Hilda (born 1913). He was educated at Bell Lane Primary School and joined the MCC ground staff at Lord's Cricket Ground at the age of 15. The previous summer he had begun to make a name"
"15–2 to Arsenal. He also guested for Chester, scoring a hat-trick against Everton during the 1942–43 season. In June 1940, he was one of five Arsenal players who guested for Southampton in a victory over Fulham at Craven Cottage. After the war had ended, he reverted to defence, becoming a mainstay in the Arsenal side at centre half. Although he missed the first six games of the 1947–48 due to cricketing commitments but was a near ever-present for the remainder of the season, as Arsenal won the First Division title and Compton finally earned a top-class honour; his brother, Denis,"
"Compton's memoirs, entitled ""Call of Duty: My Life before, during and after the Band of Brothers"" and written with Marcus Brotherton, were published by Berkeley Publishing on May 6, 2008. A celebration of Compton's 90th birthday was held in January 2012 with nearly 200 in attendance including ""Band of Brothers"" actors Michael Cudlitz, James Madio, Neal McDonough, and Richard Speight, Jr. McDonough developed a friendship with Compton while making the miniseries and kept in touch afterwards. McDonough's son Morgan is nicknamed ""Little Buck"" in honor of Compton. In January 2012 Compton suffered a heart attack. On February 25, 2012, he"
"call. ""Denis,"" she said, ""it's me, your mother. You're not 70, you're only 69."" After retiring from sport, Denis Compton became a journalist and later a commentator for BBC Television. He was made a CBE in 1958. He became the first former professional cricketer to be elected President of Middlesex County Cricket Club in 1991. He served two terms, until a week before his death from septicaemia in Windsor, Berkshire aged 78. Compton's death, on Saint George's Day, coincided with the opening of the 1997 County Championship season, and pavilion flags across the country were lowered to half-mast in his"
"had also by this time established himself in the Arsenal side and won a medal as well. During the close season, he succeeded Joe Mercer as Arsenal captain, but relinquished the armband soon after, saying Mercer deserved the honour more. Compton went on to win the FA Cup in 1949–50, scoring a last-minute equaliser in the Gunners' semi-final against Chelsea, heading a corner kick from his brother Denis to level the match 2–2; Arsenal won the replay 1–0, and then beat Liverpool in the final. Compton's form was such that he was selected for England for their match against Wales"
"Andre Compton Andre Neil Compton (born 15 May 1977 in Dewsbury, England) is a speedway rider. He is the older brother of Benji Compton. In 2004, Compton's form led to a call up from Elite League side Poole Pirates. This was also the year in which Compton became Premier League Riders Champion. He passed the unbeaten Simon Stead in the final, and both riders fell on the last turn, giving both riders multiple injuries. The race was awarded and Compton managed to take his place on the rostrum as winner. In 2006, Compton became the captain of the Sheffield Tigers"
"first wife was Doris Rich, a dancer, and they had a son, Brian. With his second wife, Valerie Platt, Compton had two sons, Patrick and Richard, both of whom would go on to play cricket for Natal. Compton married his third wife, Christine Franklin Tobias, in 1975, with whom he had two daughters, Charlotte and Victoria. His grandson Nick, son of Richard, made his Test debut against India at Ahmedabad during the England cricket team's 2012–13 tour of India. The following table summarises the Test centuries scored by Denis Compton. Denis Compton is mentioned in ""Fawlty Towers"", series 1 episode"
"Compton kept his place for the second Test. He was dismissed for just nine in the first innings, but looked in better touch in the second innings and scored an unbeaten 22 to help England to a nine wicket victory. In the final match of the series he was out for one in England's first innings, before making 19 in the second, as the match ended in a draw. Nick Compton Nicholas Richard Denis Compton (born 26 June 1983) is an English former first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex. The grandson of Denis Compton, he represented England in 16 Test"
"Nick Compton Nicholas Richard Denis Compton (born 26 June 1983) is an English former first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex. The grandson of Denis Compton, he represented England in 16 Test matches. A right-handed top order batsman and occasional right-arm off spin bowler, he made his List-A debut for Middlesex in 2001 and made his first-class debut three years later. A move to Somerset in 2010 saw Compton establish himself as a consistent scorer in a strong top order and following a prolific domestic season he made his England Test debut against India in November 2012. In April 2013, the"
"Denis Compton Denis Charles Scott Compton CBE (23 May 1918 – 23 April 1997) was an English cricketer who played in 78 Test matches and spent his whole cricket career with Middlesex. He was also an accomplished footballer who played most of his football career at Arsenal. A right-handed batsman and slow left-arm chinaman bowler, Compton is regularly credited as one of England's most remarkable batsmen. He is one of only twenty-five players to have scored over one hundred centuries in first-class cricket. In 2009, Compton was posthumously inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. The Denis Compton Oval"
"being the better player. In Tim Rice's Oscar acceptance speech for the song ""Can You Feel the Love Tonight"", he thanked Denis Compton ""a childhood hero of mine"". In ""As Time Goes By"", series 3 episode 3 ""Living Together, But Where?"". When Lionel is cleaning his flat, he wonders if should keep his copy of the book ""End of an Innings"", written by Denis Compton. Denis Compton Denis Charles Scott Compton CBE (23 May 1918 – 23 April 1997) was an English cricketer who played in 78 Test matches and spent his whole cricket career with Middlesex. He was also"
"contract to ride for the Glasgow Tigers for the rest of the season. Andre Compton Andre Neil Compton (born 15 May 1977 in Dewsbury, England) is a speedway rider. He is the older brother of Benji Compton. In 2004, Compton's form led to a call up from Elite League side Poole Pirates. This was also the year in which Compton became Premier League Riders Champion. He passed the unbeaten Simon Stead in the final, and both riders fell on the last turn, giving both riders multiple injuries. The race was awarded and Compton managed to take his place on the"
"Richard Compton (cricketer) Richard Cecil Denis Compton (born 29 March 1956) is a retired South African cricketer. Compton was the third son of the English Test cricketer Denis Compton, Denis's second son with his second wife Valerie Platt. He was born in London and brought up in South Africa from 1960. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler, he represented Natal in seven SACB first-class matches in the Howa Bowl, five in 1978/79 and two in 1980/81. He scored 99 runs at an average of 9.00 and took eighteen wickets at an average of 22.11, with best bowling figures of"
"Francis Compton (Conservative politician) Francis Compton D.C.L (20 November 1824 – 24 October 1915) was an English lawyer and Conservative Party politician. Compton was the son of Henry Combe Compton M.P. of Minstead Manor House, Lyndhurst, Hampshire and his wife Charlotte Mills. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford and became a Fellow of All Souls. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn and Middle Temple in 1850. He was a J.P. for Hampshire. At the 1880 general election Compton was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Hampshire. When this was divided under the Redistribution of"
"brothers graduated from the College of Wooster and earned their Ph.D. degrees at Princeton University. Their sister was Mary Elesia Compton. Wilson Compton earned his doctoral degree from the department of history, politics, and economics at Princeton University in 1915. He then taught economics for one year at Dartmouth College before going to work for the Federal Trade Commission. During this period, he wrote several papers on the economic challenges facing the nation's lumber industry. In 1918, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, a trade group now merged into the American Forest and Paper Association, was reorganized and invited Compton to"
"NBC Denis Compton Award The NBC Denis Compton Award is an annual award given to 'The Most Promising Young Player' at each of the 18 English first-class counties. A player may receive the award more than once. The award was born in 1996 when Neil Burns, the former Somerset wicket-keeper-batsman, and now a director of NBC Sports Management Ltd, met Denis Compton while playing for Sir Paul Getty's XI. Burns put forward his ideas for a structured programme that would see promising young English players sent for coaching in South Africa during the English winter. Compton was interested in the"
"O'Neal Compton O'Neal Compton (born February 5, 1951) is an American film and television actor. He was born Belton O'Neal Compton, Jr. in Sumter, South Carolina, the son of educators. O'Neal Compton is best known as a character actor in films and television (Life, Nixon, Nell, Primary Colors, Deep Impact, Seinfeld, Big Eden.) He is also an award-winning writer, producer, photographer and commercial director. O'Neal's photography has been featured in exhibitions at the Michael Hoppen Gallery (London), Castle Haggenberg (Vienna) and in private galleries in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, New Orleans and South Carolina. His photographs hang in the"
"Karl Taylor Compton Karl Taylor Compton (September 14, 1887 – June 22, 1954) was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948. Karl Taylor Compton was born in Wooster, Ohio, the eldest of three brothers (including Arthur Compton and Wilson Martindale Compton) and one sister, Mary. His father, Elias Compton, was from an old American Presbyterian family, and his mother, Otelia Augspurger Compton, was from an Alsatian and Hessian Mennonite family that had recently immigrated to the United States. He came from a remarkably accomplished family in which his brother Arthur"
"Richard Compton Richard Compton (March 2, 1938 – August 11, 2007) was an American actor, director and writer, primarily in television. Compton had small parts as an actor in film and television series, including minor roles in two episodes of """". Years later, he directed an episode of """". Other directorial credits included episodes of ""The X-Files"", ""Charmed"", ""Sliders"", ""Babylon 5"" and ""Miami Vice"", as well as the films ""Macon County Line"" and its sequel, ""Return to Macon County"" (both of which he also co-wrote). Compton was the husband of actress Veronica Cartwright and the brother-in-law of actress Angela Cartwright."
"Richard Compton Richard Compton (March 2, 1938 – August 11, 2007) was an American actor, director and writer, primarily in television. Compton had small parts as an actor in film and television series, including minor roles in two episodes of """". Years later, he directed an episode of """". Other directorial credits included episodes of ""The X-Files"", ""Charmed"", ""Sliders"", ""Babylon 5"" and ""Miami Vice"", as well as the films ""Macon County Line"" and its sequel, ""Return to Macon County"" (both of which he also co-wrote). Compton was the husband of actress Veronica Cartwright and the brother-in-law of actress Angela Cartwright."
"Bill Compton (The Southern Vampire Mysteries) William Erasmus ""Bill"" Compton is a fictional character from ""The Southern Vampire Mysteries/Sookie Stackhouse"" series by author Charlaine Harris. He is a vampire and is introduced in the first novel in the series, ""Dead Until Dark,"" and has appeared in all of the novels since. In the fifth season of the television adaption, Bill plays the role of the main antagonist. In the book series, Bill was born on April 9, 1840. He lived in Bon Temps, Louisiana, and fought for the South during the Civil War. He was a married farmer with three"
"in hairdressing, but returned in 2013 with Kent Kings in the National League. Compton was born in Playa de las Américas, Tenerife, Spain. When he was four years old, his family was moved to Great Britain. He now lives in Bradford, England and has two citizenships; Spanish and British. Compton is the younger brother of former Sheffield Tigers captain Andre Compton. Benji Compton Benjamin Mark ""Benji"" Compton (born 17 September 1986 in Playa de las Américas, Tenerife) is a Spanish-British motorcycle speedway rider. Compton has ridden for Buxton Hitmen in 2004, Scunthorpe Scorpions in 2005, Sheffield Tigers in 2006 as"
"Who"". He is also the younger brother of ""Robin Hood"" actor Sam Troughton and the cousin of Harry Melling, who appeared in the Harry Potter films. He played six one day internationals for England, scoring 36 runs at an average of nine. He was a hard-hitting batsman with a good range of shots. He averaged a respectable 40 plus in the four day county game. He won the NBC Denis Compton Award in 2002. He was named Warwickshire captain for the 2011 season in November 2010. Troughton captained Warwickshire to 2nd place in the 2011 County Championship, losing out on"
"D. G. Compton: As Frances Lynch: David G. Compton David Guy Compton (born August 19, 1930) is a British author who writes science fiction under the name D. G. Compton. He used the name Guy Compton for his earlier crime novels and the pseudonym Frances Lynch for his Gothic novels. He has also written short stories, radio plays, and a non-fiction book on stammering, its causes and cures. Compton was born in London. His first published book was the 1962 crime novel ""Too Many Murderers"". His 1970 novel ""The Steel Crocodile"" was nominated for the Nebula Award, and his 1974"
"his wife, formerly Mrs Elizabeth Symonds, and he was the sixth of eleven children. Through both parents, Compton was related to members of the medical profession. After being educated at Huntingdon and at a boarding school at Little Baddow in Essex, Compton was apprenticed to his mother's brother, who was a cloth merchant in Aldermanbury, near London. Compton was unhappy with a life in trade and, desiring instead a life on the stage, ran away twice but was returned to his family each time. However, after running away for a third time in 1826, his family finally accepted his wish"
"Henry Compton (bishop) Henry Compton (1632 – 7 July 1713) was the Bishop of London from 1675 to 1713. Compton was born the sixth and youngest son of the 2nd Earl of Northampton. He was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford, but left in 1654 without a degree, and then travelled in Europe. After the restoration of Charles II in 1660 he became a cornet in his brother Charles' troop of the Royal Regiment of Horse, but soon quit the army for the church. After a further period of study at Cambridge and again at Oxford, he graduated as a"
"war, Compton became Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. During his tenure, the university formally desegregated its undergraduate divisions, named its first female full professor, and enrolled a record number of students after wartime veterans returned to the United States. Arthur Compton was born on September 10, 1892, in Wooster, Ohio, the son of Elias and Otelia Catherine (née Augspurger) Compton, who was named American Mother of the Year in 1939. They were an academic family. Elias was dean of the University of Wooster (later The College of Wooster), which Arthur also attended. Arthur's eldest brother, Karl, who also"
"attended Wooster, earned a PhD in physics from Princeton University in 1912, and was president of MIT from 1930 to 1948. His second brother Wilson likewise attended Wooster, earned his PhD in economics from Princeton in 1916 and was president of the State College of Washington, later Washington State University from 1944 to 1951. All three brothers were members of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Compton was initially interested in astronomy, and took a photograph of Halley's Comet in 1910. Around 1913, he described an experiment where an examination of the motion of water in a circular tube demonstrated the"
"psychotherapist, she died of cancer the year before her son moved to New York City. Denton has a younger sister, Rebecca. He was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He also became the editor of the university's magazine. He began his career as a journalist with the ""Financial Times"". He co-wrote a book about the collapse of Barings Bank called All That Glitters. He was a co-founder of a social networking site, First Tuesday and co-founded Moreover Technologies with David Galbraith and Angus Bankes, schoolmates from UCS. Denton is the"
"Fifty-second and Fifty-third United States Congress and served from March 4, 1891, until his resignation, effective May 15, 1894 when he was then appointed by President Grover Cleveland as naval officer at Baltimore, Maryland, a post in which he served from 1894 to 1898. Compton died in Laurel, Maryland and was interred in Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore. He is also the great-grandson of Philip Key. Barnes Compton Barnes Compton (November 16, 1830 – December 4, 1898), was a Representative of the fifth congressional district of Maryland and a Maryland state Treasurer. Born in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, Compton"
"and two brothers and is first cousin to boxer Amir Khan. Khan is five years younger than Mahmood and the two cousins stay close, having grown up living near to each other. Mahmood began playing club cricket in the Bolton Leagues, and played well enough to be signed by Lancashire in 2002. He made his debut for Lancashire in 2002 whilst on a scholarship with the club. He won the NBC Denis Compton Award in 2003; in the same year, he inadvertently broke the hands of Lancashire teammate Andrew Flintoff and England A teammate Alex Gidman, an early indicator of"
"Daniel Compton Daniel James Compton (January 28, 1915 – April 18, 1990) was a merchant and political figure on Prince Edward Island. He represented 4th Queens from 1970 to 1986 as a Progressive Conservative. He was born in Belle River, Prince Edward Island, the son of Benjamin Compton and Sarah Elizabeth. Compton served on the Canadian warship HMCS ""Swansea"" during World War II. He operated a general store in Belle River and was also involved in the timber trade. In 1947, he married Mary Agnes Compton from Massachusetts. Compton ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly in 1966."
"on the day of the holding of the view of frankpledge he claimed for himself and his steward the right to kill and carry away one deer. Henry Compton was High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1758 and was a noted racing man, being an original member of the Jockey Club founded in 1753. His son John, who inherited his father's properties, was Sheriff of Hampshire in 1797. His son Henry became Sheriff of Hampshire in 1819 and took a prominent part in suppressing the 1830 Swing riots at Fordingbridge. His son Henry who succeeded him was Sheriff in 1871, and"