3-077-854 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. H. J. C. Cust, M.P. for the Stamford and Bourne Division of Lincolnshire, 1890. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. J. Bliss, of Grantham. 'The election for the Stamford and Bourne Division of Lincolnshire, the seat vacated by Mr. J. C. Lawrance on his appointment to be a Judge, resulted at the polling, on Friday, March 7, in the return of Mr. Cust, the Conservative candidate, by a majority of 282 over Mr. Arthur Priestley, the Gladstonian candidate. Mr. Henry John Cockayne Cust, of Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire, is the eldest son of the late Mr. Henry Francis Cockayne Cust, formerly M.P. for Grantham, by his marriage with Sarah Jane, daughter of the late Mr. Isaac Cookson, of Meldon Park, Northumberland. He is a cousin of Earl Brownlow, and belongs to a family that has frequently represented both Grantham and Lincolnshire. He was born in 1861, and was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the usual degrees. He now enters Parliament for the first time'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.