From 1818, Cust sat in Parliament as member of parliament for Grantham until 1826 and then for Lostwithiel from 1826 to 1832.[3] As a Member of Parliament, he raised concerns about the management of public architectural projects, particular the works at Buckingham House.[4] In 1831, he was knighted and appointed a KCH by William IV for his military service.[3] In February 1834 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[5]
After the Burning of Parliament in 1834, Cust proposed that the new Houses of Parliament should be to a design chosen in an open competition. He prevailed on Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister in late 1834, and a competition was held.[6] Cust in this way successfully opposed the appointment of Robert Smirke to be the architect. Peel was replaced by Lord Melbourne as Prime Minister in April 1835, and it was decided to proceed with the competition along Cust's lines, with the style limited to Elizabethan or Gothic, so rejecting the neo-classical.[7]
Lives of the warriors of the thirty years' war, Warriors of the 17th century, vol. part I, London: J. Murray, 1865
Lives of the warriors of the thirty years' war, Warriors of the 17th century, vol. part II, London: J. Murray, 1865
Lives of the warriors who have commanded fleets and armies before the enemy, Warriors of the 17th century, vol. 3 part III, London: J. Murray, 1869
Family
Mary Anne Cust, 1836 engraving
Cust married in 1821 Mary Anne Boode, daughter of Lewis William Boode of Peover Hall in Cheshire. They had a son and five daughters.[4] The Boode family were Dutch planters in Demerara, Lewis William being originally Lodewijk Willem Boode, and the brother of Andreas Christian Boode (1763–1844).[11] Mary inherited from her mother Margaret, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Dannett of Liverpool and a widow by 1802, the Greenwich Park estate in Demerara, on her death c.1827.[12] Before Margaret's death, in the 1823–4 parliamentary session, Cust was appointed to the committee of the West India planters and merchants there.[4]
The couple had a son and five daughters.[4] The children were:
Sir Leopold Cust, 2nd Baronet (1831–1878), married 1863 Charlotte Sobieski Isabel Bridgeman.[14][15]
Louisa Mary Ann (died 1863), married in 1862 the Rev. John James Moss.[16][17] He was the son of John Moss (1782–1858), the plantation owner and Liverpool banker.[18]
Victoria Mary Louisa (died 1895) married 1846 Simon Yorke III (died 1894) of Erddig.[19][20]
Ethelred or Etheldreda Victoria (died 1893), married 1864 Charles Henry Congreve (died 1875).[20][14][15]
Margaret Amy Frances, married 1850 Charles Randle Egerton R.N. (died 1869).[20][15] His father, Wilbraham Egerton of Tatton Park, had been executor for Margaret Boode.[21][22]
Henrietta Maria Christina (died 1846), did not marry.[14]
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^Mills, T.F. "16th The Queen's Lancers". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 16 October 2007. Retrieved 3 October 2007.
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^ a b cThe Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée. Edward Bull. 1836. p. 134.
^ a b cBurke, Bernard (1903). Ashworth P. Burke (ed.). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage (65th ed.). London: Harrison and Sons. p. 412.
^Sylvanus Urban (1863). Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer. Edward Cave. p. 522.
^Debrett's illustrated baronetage and knightage (and companionage) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1879. p. 319.
^Hughes, John (1906). Liverpool banks [and] bankers, 1760-1837, a history of the circumstances which gave rise to the industry, and of the men who founded and developed it. Liverpool: Young.
^Walford, Edward (1860). The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. p. 1472.
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