Herbert Eastwick Compton (16 November 1853 – 1906) was an English novelist, biographer, world traveller, and writer on miscellaneous topics, including the
Georgian era
The Georgian era was a period in British history from 1714 to , named after the House of Hanover, Hanoverian kings George I of Great Britain, George I, George II of Great Britain, George II, George III and George IV. The definition of the Geor ...
and other historical subjects, India, economics and fiscal matters, and dogs.
Biography
His parents were Colonel D'Oyly Compton of the
Honourable East India Company Service and Louise Eastwick. Herbert E. Compton was educated at
Malvern College
Malvern College is a Private schools in the United Kingdom, fee-charging coeducational boarding school, boarding and day school in Malvern, Worcestershire, Malvern, Worcestershire, England. It is a public school (United Kingdom), public school ...
and spent twenty-two years in India. Herbert E. Compton was a leader writer for the
Tariff Reform League
The Tariff Reform League (TRL) was a protectionist British pressure group formed in 1903 to protest against what they considered to be unfair foreign imports and to advocate Imperial Preference to protect British industry from foreign competiti ...
in 1904, was appointed Organising Secretary of the Anti-Tea-Duty League in 1905, and organised the agitation against what the Anti-Tea-Duty League regarded as the British Empire's excessive duty on tea.
H. E. Compton married Lucy Ellinor Faddy (1861–1908). He was the father of Ellice Dorothy Amy Compton (1881–1950), who married Philip Egerton Tickle in 1907, and Florence D'Oyly Compton (1888–1918), who became a British Army nurse in WWI and drowned in a launch accident near
Basra
Basra () is a port city in Iraq, southern Iraq. It is the capital of the eponymous Basra Governorate, as well as the List of largest cities of Iraq, third largest city in Iraq overall, behind Baghdad and Mosul. Located near the Iran–Iraq bor ...
, Iraq. H. E. Compton had two famous maternal uncles: Professor
Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814–1883) and Captain
William Joseph Eastwick (1808–1889).
He committed suicide at sea in July or August 1906 en route to
Madeira
Madeira ( ; ), officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (), is an autonomous Regions of Portugal, autonomous region of Portugal. It is an archipelago situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, in the region of Macaronesia, just under north of ...
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Selected publications
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References
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1853 births
1906 deaths
19th-century English writers
20th-century English writers
20th-century English male writers
English biographers
19th-century British male writers
20th-century male writers
People educated at Malvern College
Suicides by drowning