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:''For his father, see Henry Cockayne-Cust.'' Henry John "Harry" Cockayne-Cust, MP, JP, DL (10 October 1861 – 2 March 1917) was an English politician and editor who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Unionist Party. ==Biography== Cust was born to Sara Jane Cookson and Henry Cockayne-Cust,〔(Ancestry of Harry Cust )〕 and was educated at Eton (where he was captain of the Oppidans) and Trinity College, Cambridge. While at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, he was elected to the Apostles and graduated with second-class honours in the Classical Tripos with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.). Initially pursuing a legal career, Cust was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1888 but was not called. Instead he decided to enter Parliament, and won a by-election in 1890 for Stamford, Lincolnshire. He left Parliament at the general election of 1895, but returned five years later in 1900 when he won a seat in the constituency of Bermondsey, remaining until 1906. Meanwhile, he served as Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Bedfordshire and as Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Bedfordshire, as well as Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Lincolnshire.〔http://thepeerage.com/p18488.htm#i184871〕 Cust was one of The Souls and was attached to Pamela Wyndham, who later married Edward Tennant. Others in the same clique were Margot Asquith, Arthur Balfour, George Nathaniel Curzon, Alfred Lyttelton, Godfrey Webb, and George Wyndham. Considered a brilliant conversationalist by his contemporaries, he had a reputation as a womaniser and was the natural father of the socialite and philanthropist Lady Diana Cooper, by the Duchess of Rutland, although this was not acknowledged until much later. Cust was also rumoured to be the father of Beatrice Ethel Stephenson, born in 1889, who married in Grantham, Wesley Chapel, on 28 May 1917, Alfred Roberts, born in Ringstead, Northamptonshire, in 1893, and became the mother of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and although there was no solid proof of this connection, Lady Diana Cooper often jokingly referred to Mrs. Thatcher as her niece.〔John Campbell ''The Grocer's Daughter''〕 In 1892, Cust met William Waldorf Astor, who invited him to edit the ''Pall Mall Gazette''. Despite lacking any background in journalism, Cust immediately accepted. He soon transformed the newspaper into the best evening journal of the period, thanks in part to his securing such contributors as Rudyard Kipling and H. G. Wells. Yet Cust rejected contributions submitted by Astor himself, who had literary aspirations; and this, coupled with political disagreements, led to Cust's dismissal in February 1896.〔Damian Atkinson, "Cust, Henry John Cockayne", in ''The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), v. 14, p. 819.〕 After leaving the ''Pall Mall Gazette'', Cust continued his career as an author. He wrote several poems, most notably "Non nobis domine".〔http://www.bartleby.com/101/876.html〕 During World War I Cust was active in propaganda on behalf of the British Government. In August 1914, he founded the Central Committee for National Patriotic Organizations. He died in 1917 of a heart attack at his home in Hyde Park Gate, London. He was heir to the barony of Brownlow, a position which at his death fell to his brother, Adelbert Salisbury Cust (b. 1867).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Cust」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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