Peregrine Cust (other)
Peregrine Cust may refer to: * Peregrine Cust (1723–1785), Member of Parliament for Bishop's Castle (1761–1768), New Shoreham (1768–1774), Ilchester (1774–1775) and (1780–1785), and Grantham (1776–1780) * Peregrine Cust (1791–1873), Member of Parliament for Honiton (1818–1826) and Clitheroe (1826–1832) *Peregrine Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow Peregrine Francis Adelbert Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow (27 April 1899 – 28 July 1978), often known as Perry Brownlow, was a British peer and courtier. He was the son of Adelbert Salusbury Cockayne Cust, 5th Baron Brownlow, and his wife Maud B ...

Peregrine Cust (1723–1785)
Peregrine Cust (1723 – 2 January 1785) was a British politician and Member of Parliament (MP). He was also Deputy Chairman of the East India Company in 1769. Family and early life Cust was born in 1723 and baptized on 19 May 1723. He was the fourth son of Sir Richard Cust, 2nd Baronet, and a younger brother of Sir John Cust and Francis Cust, both future politicians. Peregrine was educated at The King's School, Grantham, and apprenticed to a firm of linen drapers in 1739. He was sent to Holland in 1743 for his further education, where he learnt Dutch. Business career He was a director of the East India Company from 1767 to 1769, serving as deputy chairman from 1769 to 1770. Political career After investing £1,200 and having gained the interest of Charles Walcott, Cust was elected as MP for Bishop's Castle in 1761. He held the seat until 1768, when he was elected MP for New Shoreham. He represented New Shoreham until 1774, when he stood for Ilchester. Though he was declared ...
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Peregrine Cust (1791–1873)
Lieutenant-Colonel Peregrine Francis Cust (13 August 1791 – 15 September 1873) was a British Tory Member of Parliament (MP). Cust was the son of Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow, by Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Bankes, of Wimbledon. He was the brother of John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, William Cust and Sir Edward Cust, 1st Baronet. He was returned to Parliament at the 1818 general election as one of two members for the borough of Honiton in Devon, and re-elected there in 1820. He did not stand again at Honiton in 1826, when was returned instead as one of the two MPs for the borough of Clitheroe in Lancashire. He held that seat for six years, until the 1832 general election, when the Great Reform Act reduced the borough to one seat and Cust did not seek re-election. Cust was married three times. He married firstly Lady Isabella Mary, daughter of Charles Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch, in 1823. After her early death in October 1829 he married secondly Mary Sophia, ...
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