Background
Cust was a younger son of Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow, by Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Bankes, of Wimbledon.
Cust was a younger son of Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow, by Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Bankes, of Wimbledon.
He also served as Commissioner of Customs. Cust married Sophia, daughter of Thomas Newnham, in 1819. Arthur"s son Sir Herbert Edward Purey-Cust was an Admiral in the Royal Navy.
William Cust died in March 1845, aged 58.
5th United Kingdom Parliament. 6th United Kingdom Parliament. 7th United Kingdom Parliament]
He sat as Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire between 1816 and 1818 and for Clitheroe from 1818 to 1822, when he took the Chiltern Hundreds.