Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton

Charles Portrait of the Earl of Northampton by Pompeo Batoni (1708–1787), painted in Rome, 1758. Oil on canvas; Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum

Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton, DL (22 July 1737 – 18 October 1763) was a British peer and diplomat.

He was the eldest son of the Hon. Charles Compton, in turn youngest son of George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton, and his wife Mary, only daughter of Sir Berkeley Lucy, 3rd Baronet. Compton was educated at Westminster School and went then to Christ Church, Oxford. In 1758, he succeeded his uncle George Compton as earl and was elected Recorder of Northampton. He received a Doctor of Civil Law by the University of Oxford in the following year and was nominated a deputy lieutenant for the county of Northamptonshire. Their only child, Elizabeth, married George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington. His wife died at Naples in May 1763, and Compton survived her until October, aged only 26. Both were buried in the family's Northamptonshire vault. He was succeeded in the earldom by his younger brother Spencer.