COMPTON (FENNY), a parish in the Burton-
Dassett division of the hundred of KINGTON, county of
WARWICK, 5 miles (E. by N.) from Kington, containing
572 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry, rated in the king's books at £15. 8. 4., and
in the patronage of the President and Fellows of Corpus
Christi College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to
St. Peter. Sir Henry Bate Dudley, a comic writer of
some note, was born here, in 1745; he died in 1824.