COMPTON, HENRY English divine, was educated at Queen's College, Oxford, then travelled in Europe, and was made bishop of Oxford in 1674, and in the following year was translated to the see of London. He was also appointed a member of the privy council, and was entrusted with the education of the two princesses—Mary and Anne. He showed unusual lib erality to Protestant dissenters and held several conferences with the clergy of his diocese on the subject of reunion with them. On the accession of James II. he consequently lost his seat in the council and his deanery in the Chapel Royal; and for his firm ness in refusing to suspend John Sharp, rector of St. Giles's-in the-Fields, whose anti-papal writings had rendered him obnoxious to the king, he was himself suspended. At the Revolution Comp ton's old position was restored to him; and he was chosen as one of the commissioners for revising the liturgy. During the reign of Anne he remained a member of the privy council, and was one of the commissioners appointed to arrange the terms of the union of England and Scotland. He died at Fulham on July 7, 1713. He published, besides several theological works, A Translation from the Italian of the Life of Donna Olympia Maladichini, who governed the Church during the time of Pope Innocent X., which was from the year 1644 to (1667), and A Translation from the French of the Jesuits' Intrigues (1669) .