Lady Marion Margaret Compton

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Notes for LADY MARIAN MARGARET COMPTON:
......formerly Lady Marian Margaret Compton (b. Rome, 1817), her father was Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton (b. 1790), 2nd Marquis of Nothampton. She took the name Cust following her marriage to John Hume Cust (b. 1812), Viscount Alford and the 1st Earl Brownlow. After his father's death in 1851, her son John William Spencer Cust (b. 1842) became the 2nd Earl Brownlow.
Lady Marian, was well known in society as an intellectual conversationalist and patron of the arts. In 1866 she wrote an illustrated Needlework as Art, and helped to establish the School of Art Needlework in 1872 of which Queen Victoria became a patron when the premises moved to South Kensington in 1875.
The Brownlow residence at Ashridge lies in an estate of over three thousand acres situated near to Berkhamsted. It dates from the 13th century and was rebuilt in 1815 from an original monastery of the Order of Bonhommes. The estate belongs now to the National Trust and the house is a management college. The other Brownlow residence, Belton House near Grantham, is owned also by the National Trust and the house and grounds are open to the public.

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Family/Spouse: John Hume (Egerton) Cust. John (son of Sir John Cust and Sophia Hume) was born in 1812; died in 1851. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John William Spencer (Egerton Cust) was born in 1842; died in 1867.
2. Adelbert Wellington Brownlow Cust was born in 1844; died in 1921.