William Cust (23 January 1787 – 3 March 1845), was a British barrister and

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(MP). He also served as Commissioner of Customs. Cust was a younger 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 Wimbledon. John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, Peregrine Cust, Rev. Henry Cockayne Cust 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 ...

were his brothers. He sat as

for

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between 1816 and 1818 and for

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from 1818 to 1822, when he took the

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. Cust married Sophia, daughter of Thomas Newnham, in 1819. One of their sons, the Very Reverend

Arthur Purey-Cust Arthur Perceval Purey-Cust (born Cust; 21 February 1828 – 23 December 1916) was a Church of England cleric and author who served as Dean of York from 1880 to 1916. Biography He was born as Arthur Perceval Cust, the younger son of the Honou ...

, was

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. Arthur's son Sir Herbert Edward Purey-Cust was an Admiral in the

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. William Cust died in March 1845, aged 58. His wife survived him by almost forty years and died in January 1884.

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* 1787 births 1845 deaths Younger sons of barons Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1812–1818 UK MPs 1818–1820 UK MPs 1820–1826

William William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

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