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

Royal Empire Society The Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) is a non-governmental organisation with a mission to promote the value of the Commonwealth and the values upon which it is based. The Society upholds the values of the Commonwealth Charter, promoting confl ...

. He was the son of Sir Lionel Henry Cust, grandson of

Henry Cockayne Cust Rev. Canon Henry Cockayne Cust (28 September 1780 – 19 May 1861) was a Canon of Windsor from 1813 to 1861.''Fasti Wyndesorienses'', May 1950. S. L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Origins He was a ...

, and great-grandson of

Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow (3 December 1744 – 25 December 1807), of Belton House near Grantham in Lincolnshire (known as Sir Brownlow Cust, 4th Baronet, from 1770 to 1776), was a British Tories (British political party), Tory Member of ...

and

Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey General Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey (5 April 1748 – 21 November 1832), known as Francis Needham until 1818 and as The Viscount Kilmorey from 1818 to 1822, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Member of Parliament. Early life Kilmorey was ...

. He was educated at

Eton Eton most commonly refers to Eton College, a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. Eton may also refer to: Places *Eton, Berkshire, a town in Berkshire, England *Eton, Georgia, a town in the United States *Éton, a commune in the Meuse depa ...

and joined the Royal Artillery. He received the OBE in 1939 and the CBE in 1954. He was knighted in 1959. He was a member of the

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine was a British Empire, British geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the Palestine (region), region of Palestine, and after 1922, under the terms of the League of Nations's Mandate for Palestine. After ...

Civil Service from 1920-36. From December 1928 he was the Private Secretary to the

High Commissioner of Palestine High may refer to: Science and technology * Height * High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area * High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory * High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift t ...

.Official Gazette of the Government of Palestine, Number 232, 1 April 1939, page 265. Cust is notable for authoring the best known summary of the

Status quo of Holy Land sites The Status Quo (; ) is an understanding among religious communities with respect to nine shared religious sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Other holy places in Israel and Palestine were not deemed subject to the Status Quo, because the authoritie ...

in 1929: '' The Status Quo in the Holy Places.'' He was a cousin of

Ronald Storrs Sir Ronald Henry Amherst Storrs (19 November 1881 – 1 November 1955) was an official in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Foreign Office. He served as Oriental Secretary in Cairo, Military Governor of Jerusalem, Governor of Britis ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cust, Archer 1896 births 1962 deaths

Archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern ...

20th-century British civil servants British art historians People educated at Eton College Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Officers_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire