Person

Earl Brownlow

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Alternative names
John Cust
Gender
Assigned male at birth
Nationality
United Kingdom
Ethnicity
White
Languages
English
Occupations
Unknown

The eldest son of the 1st Baron of Brownlow, elected MP for Clitheroe in 1802 after his tour of Russia and Germany in 1801. Once his father passed in 1807, he succeeded the titles and estates. He was awarded compensation in 1837 under the Slave Compensation Act of the same year, his younger brother married into the Boode family who were a Dutch slave-owning family. He married three times having eight children between his first two wives.

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  1. 1828: The financial and political networks which created King’s

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