Reginald Cust
Sir Reginald John Cust was a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, judge, and Chief Commissioner of the West India Incumbered Estates Commission. He was knighted in the 1890 Birthday Honours.Origins
He was a son of Rev. Hon. Henry Cockayne Cust, of Cockayne Hatley in Bedfordshire, a Canon of Windsor, a younger son of Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow of Belton House in Lincolnshire. His mother was Lady Anna Maria Elizabeth Needham, a daughter of General Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey.Marriage and children
He married Lady Elizabeth Caroline Bligh, a historian and genealogist, a daughter of Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley of Cobham Hall in Kent. The Bligh family was the heir of the Stewarts of Cobham Hall, Dukes of Richmond and Lennox, Earls of Darnley, Seigneurs d'Aubigny in France and cousins of the Stuart monarchs, the last in the male line of whom was Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox. She was the author of Some Account of the Stuarts of Aubigny, in France, London, 1891 and of Records of the Cust family of Pinchbeck, Stamford and Belton in Lincolnshire, 1479-1700, 3 vols, 1898. By his wife he had issue including:
Reginald Cust died in London on 11 June 1913.Selected publications
- A Treatise on the West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts, 17 and 18 Vict., c. 117-21 and 22 Vict., c. 96. With an appendix, containing the acts &c. London, 1859.
- ' 2nd edition. William Amer, London, 1865.
- ' London: William Amer, London, 1874.
- Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Considered Historically. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., London, 1888.
- Early Poems. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., London, 1892.
