The Faithful Servant - Peregrine Francis Adelbert Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow of Belton (1899-1978)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1936
Materials
Glass, Paper
Measurements
370 mm (Width); 710 mm (Length)
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 434551
Summary
Pencil/chalk on paper, The Faithful Servant - Peregrine Francis Adelbert Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow of Belton (1899-1978). A framed picture of Peregrine Brownlow with extracts of the national newspaper article re his return from France. Dated 1936. Peregrine Francis Adelbert Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow of Belton was born on 27 April 1899. He was the son of Adelbert Salusbury Cockayne Cust, (1867-1927)5th Baron Brownlow of Belton and Maud Buckle (d.1936). He married, (i) Katherine Hariet Kinloch, daughter of Brig.-Gen. Sir David Alexander Kinloch of Gilmerton, 11th Bt. and Elinor Lucy Bromley Davenport, on 18 October 1927. (ii) Dorothy Power, daughter of Thomas Sarsfield Kent Power, on 10 December 1954 (iii) Leila Joan Reynolds, daughter of Major Philip Guy Reynolds, on 14 May 1969. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Was a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards. He fought in the First World War. He succeeded to the title of 6th Baron Brownlow of Belton on 19 April 1927. He was Deputy Lieutenant of Lincolnshire in 1929, 1936-1950; Mayor of Grantham in 1934; Lord-in-Waiting to HM King Eward VIII in 1936; was a Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and fought in the Second World War. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary between 1940 and 1941, to the Minister of Aircraft Production. He died on 28 July 1978 at age 79.
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The Faithful Servant