About two local architects who gave their services to the 1905 extension of Compton Church, and who each had a more eminent father.
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John Philpott, Compton's martyr, Archdeacon of Winchester and fiercely Protestant son of the wealthy Catholic Philpott family. He was imprisoned, interrogated and burned at the stake in December 1555�.
Memories of growing up in Shawford in the 1940s and 50s, the Heathcote Players, pantomimes, and Barbara Clegg's prolific scriptwriting, by her children.
James Wedderburn, Rector of Compton 1626-1636, later Bishop of Dunblane, excommunicated for his part in the "too popish" Scottish Book of Common Prayer.
Memories of life as a 7-year old wartime evacuee, sent on 1 September 1939 from a modest home in Portsmouth to a huge house in Southdown Road.
Diana Fawkes, linguist, athlete, code-breaker, cathedral guide and wife of George Fawkes, rector of Compton from 1958 to 1973, has died aged 103.
Philip Barrett, cleric, church musician, church historian, church lawyer and cricket fan. Rector of Compton & Otterbourne 1978-1998.
Austin Whitaker, teacher and archivist. The Rector's sermon at his memorial service on 5th January 1998
The story of local man Lt Col Edward Carse OBE, First Buckinghamshire Battalion, who is remembered on the War Memorial in Shawford Down
What's the connection between this postcard, the first World War, a grave in Compton churchyard, and a romance with the master of a 19th century convict ship? Read on...
Monty Dawson, much decorated airman, fund-raiser for (amongst others) the PCC, Parish Magazine editor, and secretary of the Horticultural Society