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Edward Denison Compton (11 April 1872 – 11 October 1940) played first-class cricket for Somerset and Oxford University between 1894 and 1907. He was born at Frome, Somerset and died at Rye, East Sussex.

Compton was the 11th child (of 17) of the Rev Thomas Hoyle Compton and his wife, the former Eliza Sarah Winzar, and was educated at Lancing College and Keble College, Oxford. As a cricketer, Compton was a lower-order batsman and a wicketkeeper. He played for Somerset in one match in 1894 and two more in 1895, making little impression. At Oxford University, he won a blue for soccer in 1895-96, but had only two first-class cricket matches for the university team, in one of which he scored an unbeaten 22, his highest first-class score. From 1897 to 1902 he played Minor Counties cricket for Oxfordshire, and from 1903 to 1908 he played minor matches for MCC. He returned, 11 years after his previous first-class game, for a single final match for Somerset in 1907, against Sussex at Hastings.

Compton married Annie Maude May in 1900. She died in 1952.

References

1. ^ "Edward Compton". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
2. "Compton Researchers". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
3. "Scorecard: Marylebone Cricket Club v Oxford University". www.cricketarchive.com. 29 June 1896. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
4. "Scorecard: Sussex v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 25 July 1907. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
5. "Family Tree of Peter Anthony Brown". Peter Brown. Archived from the original on 26 August 2011. Retrieved 26 March 2011.

• 1872 births
• 1940 deaths
• English cricketers
• Somerset cricketers
• Oxford University cricketers
• Oxfordshire cricketers
• People educated at Lancing College
• Alumni of Keble College, Oxford
• People from Frome