Lionel George Archer Cust

Archer Cust (2nd from right) with members of Shaw Commission 1929

Colonel Sir Lionel George Archer Cust CBE (6 June 1896 – 22 May 1962) was a British civil servant, art historian, and General Secretary of the Royal Empire Society.

He was the son of Sir Lionel Henry Cust, grandson of Henry Cockayne Cust, and great-grandson of Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow and Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey. He was educated at Eton and joined the Royal Artillery.[1]

He received the OBE in 1939 and the CBE in 1954. He was knighted in 1959. He was a member of the Mandatory Palestine Civil Service from 1920-36. From December 1928 he was the Private Secretary to the High Commissioner of Palestine.[2]

Cust is notable for authoring the best known summary of the Status quo of Holy Land sites in 1929: The Status Quo in the Holy Places.[3]

He was a cousin of Ronald Storrs.[4]

References

  1. ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 544. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  2. ^ Official Gazette of the Government of Palestine, Number 232, 1 April 1939, page 265.
  3. ^ Breger, Marshall J.; Reiter, Yitzhak; Hammer, Leonard (16 December 2009). Holy Places in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Confrontation and Co-existence. Routledge. pp. 24–. ISBN 978-1-135-26812-1.
  4. ^ Cohen, Raymond (10 March 2008). Saving the Holy Sepulchre: How Rival Christians Came Together to Rescue their Holiest Shrine. Oxford University Press. pp. 22–. ISBN 978-0-19-971990-7.