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Peregrine Francis Cust (13 August 1791 – 15 September 1873) was a British

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(MP). Cust was the son of

Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow (3 December 1744 – 25 December 1807), of Belton House near Grantham in Lincolnshire (known as Sir Brownlow Cust, 4th Baronet, from 1770 to 1776), was a British Tory Member of Parliament. Origins He was the son ...

, by Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Bankes, of

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. He was the brother of

John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, GCH (19 August 1779 – 15 September 1853) was a British Peer and Tory politician. Life Cust was the eldest son of the 1st Baron Brownlow and his second wife, Frances. He was educated at Eton (1788–93) and ...

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and

Sir Edward Cust, 1st Baronet Sir Edward Cust, 1st Baronet, KCH (17 March 1794 – 14 January 1878) was a British soldier, politician and courtier. Early life He was born in Hill Street, Berkeley Square, London, Middlesex, in 1794, the sixth son of the Brownlow Cust, 1st B ...

.thepeerage.com Lt.-Col. Hon. Peregrine Francis Cust
/ref> He was returned to

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at the 1818 general election as one of two members for the borough of Honiton in

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, and re-elected there in

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. 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

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. He held that seat for six years, until the 1832 general election, when the

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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, daughter of

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, in 1833. After her death in December 1852 he married thirdly Frances, daughter of Charles Steer and widow of

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, in 1860. There were children only from the first marriage. Frances died in May 1869. Cust remained a widower until his death in September 1873, aged 82.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cust, Peregrine Francis 1791 births 1873 deaths 3rd Dragoon Guards officers Cheshire Regiment officers Deputy Lieutenants of Lincolnshire Tory MPs (pre-1834) Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Honiton UK MPs 1818–1820 UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1831–1832 Younger sons of barons Peregrine 1791