Blackwater House

New house built for Francis Compton (1824-1915), a retired barrister in 1891. Francis, who never married, was the sixth son of Henry Combe Compton, Lord of the Manor of Minstead. He was MP for South Hampshire, JP for Hampshire and Senior Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, where he was 'a constant and much-beloved resident during a portion of every term for nearly 70 years'. The house was owned by his nephew, Henry Francis Compton, until his death in 1943.