COCKAYNE CUST (formerly CUST), Francis (1722-91), of Cockayne Hatley, Beds.

On 2 Jan. 1790 Cockayne Cust applied to Pitt to become auditor of Greenwich Hospital, a place worth £100 p.a. which had been customarily annexed to his office of counsel to the Admiralty before Lord North’s time. His impression that Lord Auckland intended to resign the auditorship proved erroneous. He continued to sit for Grantham on his family’s interest, but made no mark in his last Parliament. Owing to his deafness and irritability, his attendance and conduct had long been in doubt, if not obscurely construed into hostility to government; but in April 1791 he was listed absent and hostile to the repeal of the Test Act. He died 30 Nov. 1791.PRO 30/8/127, f. 262.