John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow

Who was John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow?

John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, GCH was a British Peer and Tory politician.

Cust was the eldest son of the 1st Baron Brownlow and his second wife, Frances. In 1802, he was elected as MP for Clitheroe 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 and was created Earl Brownlow in 1815 and awarded the GCH in 1834.

On 24 July 1810, Lord Brownlow married Sophia Hume and they had three children:

Lady Sophia Frances, married Lt.-Col. Christopher Tower. Mother of Amelia, Countess de Salis.

John Hume, Viscount Alford

Hon. Charles Henry

Brownlow's wife died in 1814, and on 22 September 1818, he married Caroline Fludyer daughter of George Fludyer of Ayston, Rutland. Brownlow and Caroline had three daughters:

Lady Caroline Mary Cust

Lady Amelia Cust

Lady Katherine Anne Cust

Caroline died in 1824 and Brownlow then married Lady Emma Sophia Edgcumbe. 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.