Spencer Compton
Lord Alford married Lady Marianne Margaret Compton, daughter of Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton, in 1841. He died in January 1851, aged only 38. His eldest son, John William Spencer Brownlow Egerton-Cust, succeeded his grandfather in the earldom of Brownlow in 1853. His second son, Adelbert Wellington Brownlow Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow, later became a government minister.