John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow

Trustee and executor for the estate of the mother-in-law of his younger brother (Edward Cust, q.v.).

1. Son of Brownlow Cust and Frances Bankes. Eton. Matriculated Trinity Cambridge Michaelmas 1797; MA 1801. FSA 1801; MP Clitheroe 1802-7; FRS 1805. President of Royal Archaeological Institution Society 1841-9.

2. Living at Belgrave Square in 1841, age 61, with Emma Brownlow age 50, Caroline Cust age 21, Amelia Cust age 20 and Katherine Cust age 18, and 9 male and 14 female servants. At 12 Belgrave Square in 1850. At Belton House in Lincolnshire in the census of 1851.

T71/885 British Guiana claim no. 716A&B (Greenwich Park). The notes show that Brownlow and his co-trustee Wilbraham Egerton were appointed in the place of James Dannett, the original awardee. Edward Cust's wife was the daughter and heir of Lewis William Boode and Margaret Dannett.

http://thepeerage.com/p2886.htm [accessed 09/08/2012].

1. Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni 1261-1900 [database online], entry for Hon. John Cust.

2. 1841 and 1851 censuses online. Findmypast, Westminster Rate Books 1634-1900 [database online].