Adelbert Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow

Adelbert Wellington Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow GCVO PC DL JP (born August 19, 1844 in Lowndes Street, London - † March 17, 1921 in Belton House , Grantham , Lincolnshire ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party , who came from 1866 to 1867 was a member of the House of Commons and 1867 inherited the title of Earl Brownlow and was thereby a member of the House of Lords until his death . He was also from 1867 to 1921 Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lincolnshire and 1887-1889 Paymaster General .

Life

Family origin, officer and member of the House of Commons

Cust was the second son of John Hume Egerton, Viscount Alford , who was a member of the House of Commons from 1835 to 1851, and his wife Marianne Margaret Compton. His grandfather was John Cust , who was also a member of the House of Commons from 1802 to 1807 and first inherited the title of 2nd Baron Brownlow in 1807 and thereby became a member of the House of Lords and was raised to Earl Brownlow in 1815 . His maternal grandfather was Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton , who served in the House of Commons between 1812 and 1820 and served as President of the Royal Society and the Geological Society of London .

He himself joined the Foot Guards after attending the renowned Eton College and was promoted to lieutenant in 1863 .

On August 17, 1866, Cust was elected as a candidate of the Conservative Tories to a member of the House of Commons and represented there until February 28, 1867 the constituency of North Shropshire .

Member of the House of Lords and Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire

Upon inheriting the title of Earl Brownlow, he became the owner of the family seat of Belton House

However, he inherited the title of 3rd Earl Brownlow and the subordinate title of 3rd Viscount Alford, of Alford the following year after the death of his older brother John William Spencer Brownlow Egerton-Cust, 2nd Earl of Brownlow on February 20, 1867 in the County of Lincolnshire and also the title of 4th Baron Brownlow, of Belton in the County of Lincolnshire . Associated with this was membership in the House of Lords, to which he belonged until his death.

A few months later he succeeded Gilbert Heathcote, who died on September 6, 1867 , 1st Baron Aveland as Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire and was in this capacity until his death representative of the respective British monarch in this county. His successor was then Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough . In 1872 he also acted as Ecclesiastical Commissioner for the Church of England .

Paymaster General and Undersecretary of State

Earl Brownlow took his first government office in the government of Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , where he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board between 23 June 1885 and 1 February 1886 ) was.

In 1887 he was Prime Minister Salisbury as part of a government reshuffle, succeeding Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp for Paymaster General (General Paymaster) appointed at the same time a member of the Privy Council appeal. He held the office of paymaster general until he was replaced in a new cabinet reshuffle in 1889 by Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey . He was succeeded in 1889 after George Harris, 4th Baron Harris as Under Secretary in the Ministry of War (Under-Secretary of State for War ) and remained in that capacity until the end of Salisbury's term of office on 15 August 1892nd

Other military and social offices

Sarah Elizabeth Beresford, the wife of Earl Brownlow (painting 1879)

At the same time he was commanding officer of the Bedfordshire Volunteer Infantry Brigade between 1889 and 1892 . Furthermore, was Earl Brownlow, who at times also a magistrate (justice of the peace) and Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Hertfordshire , was from 1897 to 1921 volunteer aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria , Edward VII. , And George V.

Earl Brownlow also served temporarily as Colonel of Honor of the Hertfordshire Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment , the 4th Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment and the Lincolnshire Yeomanry . He was also Shropshire Justice of the Peace and received the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Officers' Decoration (VD) for his long service and was Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in 1921 .

On June 22, 1868 he married in Ford Castle , Northumberland Adelaide Chetwynd-Talbot, a daughter of Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Beresford. This marriage remained childless, so that the title of Earl Brownlow and the subordinate title of Viscount Alford expired. The title of Baron Brownlow of Belton could, however, be passed on to his distant cousin Adelbert Cust , who became 4th Baron Brownlow of Belton.

Web links

• Adelbert Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Adelbert Wellington Brownlow Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow on thepeerage.com , accessed August 13, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
John Egerton-Cust	Earl Brownlow 1867-1921	Title expired
John Egerton-Cust	Baron Brownlow 1867-1921	Adelbert Cust