1) English boy name 2) English toponymic surname 
[West Warwick] Crompton is a small community in West Warwick, Rhode Island, USA. It is named after Samuel Crompton, inventor of the `spinning mule`. The Crompton mill was known for the manufacture of corduroy. Crompton is home to Old St. Mary Church, the oldest Roman Catholic church building in the state of Rhode Island, built in 1844. ...
British Rail Class 33 diesel-electric locomotive (fitted with Crompton Parkinson electrical equipment). (Also see Hastings Unit and Slim Jim).[19]
nickname for class 33 locos
1753–1827, English inventor of the spinning mule.