John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow
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(19 August 1779 – 15 September 1853) was a British Peer
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and Tory politician.
Cust was the eldest son of the 1st Baron Brownlow
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Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow FRS , known as Sir Brownlow Cust, 4th Baronet, from 1770 to 1776, was a British Tory Member of Parliament....
and his second wife, Frances. In 1802, he was elected as MP
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for Clitheroe
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and held the seat until he succeeded to his father's title in 1807. In May, 1805 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
From 1809-52, he was Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire
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and was created Earl Brownlow in 1815 and awarded the GCH
Royal Guelphic Order
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in 1834.
On 24 July 1810, Lord Brownlow married Sophia Hume (the second daughter and coheiress of Sir Abraham Hume, Bt.) and they had three children:
- Lady Sophia Frances (1811-1882) (allegedly a friend of Augustus SmithAugustus SmithAugustus John Smith was governor of the Isles of Scilly for over thirty years, and was largely responsible for the economy of the islands as it is today.-Biography:...
of TrescoTrescoTresco is the second-biggest island of the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is in size, measuring about by .-History:In early times one group of islands was in the possession of a confederacy of hermits. King Henry I gave it to Tavistock Abbey which established a priory on Tresco;...
), married Lt.-Col. Christopher Tower. - John Hume, Viscount AlfordJohn Egerton, Viscount AlfordJohn Hume Egerton, Viscount Alford was a British Tory Member of Parliament.Born John Hume Cust, he was the eldest son of John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow by his first wife Sophia Hume, daughter of Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet and Lady Amelia Egerton, great-granddaughter of John Egerton, 3rd Earl of...
(1812-1851) - Hon. Charles Henry (1813-1875)
Brownlow's wife died in 1814, and on 22 September 1818, he married Caroline Fludyer daughter of George Fludyer of Ayston, Rutland (and a granddaughter of Sir Samuel Fludyer, Bt.
Sir Samuel Fludyer, 1st Baronet
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). Brownlow and Caroline had three daughters:
- Lady Caroline Mary Cust (1819-1898)
- Lady Amelia Cust (1820/21-?)
- Lady Katherine Anne Cust (1822-1885)
Caroline died in 1824 and Brownlow then married Lady Emma Sophia Edgcumbe (a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
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). Lord Brownlow did have not any children with his third wife. As his eldest son had predeceased him in 1851, on his own death in 1853, his titles passed to his grandson, John William Spencer Egerton Cust.