Richard Cust (priest)

Richard Cust (1728 – 16 October 1783) was an English clergyman who served as Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, Dean of Rochester and Dean of Lincoln.

Cust was the son of Sir Richard Cust Bt and his wife Anne Brownlow, daughter of Sir William Brownlow Bt MP.

[1] He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, matriculating in 1745 aged 17, graduating B.A.

He was appointed a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford in October 1765,[3] and rector of Belton, Lincolnshire in 1770.

[3] In 1767, Cust married Mary Harris, daughter of Rev.