The Honourable and Reverend Richard Cust
(1785-1864)
13 March 1861

Volume 2, page 301, sitting number 2496.

Born on 26 August 1785, the Honourable Richard Cust was the third son of Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow of Belton in Lincolnshire. According to a wall monument to him in the parish church at Belton, he was Prebendary of Lincoln, Rural Dean of Grantham, and for 54 years the Rector of Belton.

He died on 17 July 1864, leaving an estate valued at £40,000.

A short obituary appeared in the Dublin Evening Mail, 22 July 1864): 'We have to record the death of the Hon. and Rev. Richard Cust, brother of the late Earl Brownlow, and great-uncle of the present peer, who died on Sunday last, at the Rectory, Belton. The hon. and rev. deceased was brother of Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, Master of the Ceremonies to her Majesty. He was born in 1785, and was appointed rector of Belton in 1810, and rector of Shelland in 1814. The hon. and rev. gentleman was an honorary canon of Lincoln. He was unmarried.'