Etheldred Payne, Lady Cust (1720-1775) and her son Brownlow Cust later Sir Brownlow Cust, 1st...

attributed to Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779). Oil painting on canvas, Etheldred Payne, Lady Cust (1720-1775) and her son Brownlow Cust later Sir Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow FSA, FRS, MP (1744 – 1807) attributed to Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779), 1748/50. Three-quarter length portraits of a young woman seated turned to the left, gazing at the spectator, wearing a white satin dress, the son is standing on the left in long hair and wearing in a white satin dress. Brownlow Cust is seen here before he was breeched. Etheldred Payne, Lady Cust was the daughter of Thomas Payne of Hough-on-the-Hill and Elizabeth Folkes (b.1694); married in 1743 Sir John Cust, 3rd Bt of Pinchbeck and 6th Bt of Humby (1718-1770). She was an heiress and brought with her £60,000 though there was some opposition to the mariage as the Payne family thought that neither the Cust pedigree nor the Cust fortune was a match for theirs. Her husband Sir John Cust became Speaker of the House of Commons 1761-1770. Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow of Belton was born on 3 December 1744 at Norfolk Street, Westminster. He was the son of Rt. Hon. Sir John Cust, 3rd Bt. (1718-1770) Speaker of the House of Commons and Etheldred Payne (1720-1775). He married, (i) Jocosa Katherina Drury 1748/9-1772), daughter of Lt.-Gen. Sir Thomas Drury, 1st and last Bt.(1712-1759) and Martha Tyrrell (d.1768), on 16 October 1770 at St. George's Church, St. George Street, Hanover Square, London, England and (ii) Frances Bankes (1756-1847), daughter of Sir Henry Bankes and Frances Pembrooke, on 31 August 1775 at St. James' Church, Westminster. He was educated at Eton and graduated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1766 with an MA. He was MP (Tory) for Ilchester 1768-1774 and Grantham 1774-1776. He was created 1st Baron Brownlow of Belton on 20 May 1776, for his late father's services. He became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (F.S.A.) on 13 June 1776 and a Fellow of the Royal Society (F.R.S.) on 8 May 1783. His sister, Elisabeth married Philip Yorke I of Erddig in 1770, who had been a friend of his at Cambridge He died on 25 December 1807 at age 63 at Belton and is buried at Belton.. Belton House, Lincolnshire (Accredited Museum)