John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow

John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, GCH (19 August 1779 – 15 September 1853) was a British Peer and Tory politician.

Cust was the eldest son of the 1st Baron Brownlow and his second wife, Frances. In 1802, he was elected as MP for Clitheroe and held the seat until he succeeded to his father's title in 1807. In May 1805, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

From 1809–52, he was Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire and was created Earl Brownlow and Viscount Alford, of Alford, in the County of Lincoln in 1815. He was appointed to the Royal Guelphic Order as a Knight Grand Cross (GCH) in 1834.

On 24 July 1810, Lord Brownlow married Sophia Hume (the second daughter and coheiress of Sir Abraham Hume, Bt.) and they had three children:

Brownlow's wife died in 1814, and on 22 September 1818, he married Caroline Fludyer daughter of George Fludyer of Ayston, Rutland (and a granddaughter of Sir Samuel Fludyer, Bt). Brownlow and Caroline had four daughters:

Caroline died in 1824 and Brownlow then married Lady Emma Sophia Edgcumbe (a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe). Lord Brownlow did have not any children with his third wife. As his eldest son had pre-deceased him in 1851, on his own death in 1853, his titles passed to his grandson, John William Spencer Egerton Cust.

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