Minister". Others Anita Leslie, in her book Marlborough House Set, implies that Cust had many more children by aristocratic mistresses: So much of the Cust strain entered England's peerage that from such a number of cradles there gazed babies with eyes like large sapphires instead of the black boot buttons of their legal fathers. Legacy An annual Cust Lecture "on some important current topic relating to the British Empire" was endowed in the University of Nottingham to commemorate his work. His Occasional Poems appeared in 1918, printed in Jerusalem. Footnotes Further reading Anita Leslie, The Marlborough House Set, Doubleday, New York, 1973 - Contains an entire chapter on Cust (Chapter 23, pp. 241–248) External links 1861 births 1917 deaths People educated at Eton College Politics of the London Borough of Southwark Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1900–1906 Deputy Lieutenants of Bedfordshire English newspaper editors English male journalists British newspaper editors English male poets