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Sir Richard Cust, 1st Baronet (23 June 1622 – 30 August 1700) was a British barrister and
Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ...
. Cust was the son of Samuel Cust and Ann Burrell. He represented
Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-we ...
in the
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in 1653 and Stamford from 1679 to 1685. In 1677 he was created a Baronet, of Stamford in the County of Lincoln. Cust married Beatrice Pury, daughter of William Pury, on 29 August 1644. He died in August 1700, aged 78, and was succeeded by his grandson Richard Cust. The latter's son
Sir John Cust, 3rd Baronet Sir John Cust, 3rd Baronet PC (29 August 1718 – 24 January 1770), of Belton House near Grantham in Lincolnshire, was a British politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1761 to 1770. Origins He was the eldest son of Si ...
, served as
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from 1761 to 1770.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cust, Richard, 1st Baronet 1622 births 1700 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England 17th-century English lawyers English MPs 1653 (Barebones) English MPs 1679 English MPs 1680–1681 English MPs 1681
Richard Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stro ...