Brownlow Cust (1744 - 1807). Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow, of Belton House near Grantham in Lincolnshire, was a British Tory Member of Parliament. He was the son and heir of Sir John Cust, 3rd Baronet, Speaker of the House of Commons, by his wife Etheldreda Payne, a daughter of Thomas Payne of Hough-on-the-Hill, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1766 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Ilchester in Somerset, a seat he held until 1774, and then represented Grantham between 1774 and 1776, in which year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Brownlow, of Belton in the County of Lincoln. The peerage was chiefly in recognition of his father's services, and the name of his title refers to his paternal grandmother Anne Brownlow, sister and heiress in her issue of John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel, of Belton House, and wife of Sir Richard Cust, 2nd Baronet. In 1776 he was made a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and in 1783 was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1779 he inherited Belton House, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, under the will of his paternal grandmother, Anne Brownlow, wife of Sir Richard Cust, 2nd Baronet and sister, and in her issue heiress, of John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel, of Belton House. He married twice: Firstly in 1770 to Jocosa Katherina Drury, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Drury, 1st Baronet of Overstone in Northamptonshire, by whom he had one daughter, his wife having died only two years after the marriage. Secondly in 1775 he married Frances Bankes, daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Bankes of Wimbledon in Surrey, by whom he had five sons and one daughter.