Description: Up for auction a RARE! "1st Earl Brownlow" John Cust Hand Signed Free Frank. ES-8536 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. He was educated at Eton (1788–93) and Trinity College, Cambridge (1797) before undertaking a European tour of Russia and Germany in 1801. In 1802 he was elected the MP for Clitheroe, holding the seat until 1807, when he succeeded to his father's title and estates, including Belton House near Grantham, Lincolnshire. In May 1805, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. From 1809 to 1852, he was Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire and in 1815 was created Earl Brownlow and Viscount Alford, of Alford, in the County of Lincoln. He was appointed to the Royal Guelphic Order as a Knight Grand Cross (GCH) in 1834. According to the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership at the University College London, Brownlow was an awardee under the Slave Compensation Act 1837. In the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, the British Government took out a £15 million loan (worth £1.43 billion in 2021) with interest from Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Moses Montefiore to compensate slave owners. The loan was subsequently paid off by the British taxpayers (ending in 2015). In 1821, Brownlow’s younger brother, Sir Edward Cust, 1st Baronet (1794–1878), had married Mary Anne Boode (1799–1882). Mary was the daughter and heiress of Lewis William and Margaret Boode (née Dannett). The Boodes were a prominent Dutch, slave owning family. Brownlow and Wilbraham Egerton of Tatton Park acted as co-trustees and executors of Margaret Boode’s estate when she died in 1827. That estate included Greenwich Park, Demerara in British Guiana with 185 enslaved people. Brownlow and Egerton appear in T71/885 British Guiana claim no. 716A & B. Edward and Mary Cust, as beneficiaries of that estate received a £10,058 payment at the time (worth £962 thousand in 2021).
Price: 249.99 USD
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
End Time: 2024-10-21T12:11:20.000Z
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