Henry Cust

Henry John Cockayne Cust (* October 10, 1861, † March 2, 1917 ) was a British poet, journalist and politician.

Life

Henry Cockayne -Cust was the eldest son of six children of the politician Henry Francis Cockayne Cust (1819-1884) and his wife Sara Jane Cookson († 1867). Henry was educated at Harrow School, a prestigious boarding school. He then studied at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Between 1892 and 1896 he worked as an editor and journalist at The Pall Mall Gazette, London.

He was one of the leading members of The Souls, an influential group of young English aristocrats and intellectuals to. Among its members were, among others, George Curzon, Arthur Balfour, Margot Asquith, Violet Lindsay, Alfred Lyttelton (1857-1913), Lord Elcho ( Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss, 1857-1937 ), William Grenfell, Percy and George Wyndham. In addition to his commitment as a writer Cockayne -Cust was also politically active. 1890, the member of the Conservative Party was elected to the British House of Commons. He lost his seat five years later ( Stamford, Lincolnshire ), but was already re-elected in 1900 ( for Bermondsey ).

Henry Cockayne -Cust was considered a true womanizer - he was the natural father of Lady Diana Cooper and Beatrice Stephenson Roberts, the mother of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. As a result of an alleged pregnancy, married Cockayne Cust 1893 Lady Emmeline Mary Elizabeth Welby - Gregory ( 1867-1955 ), daughter of Sir William Earle Welby - Gregory and Victoria Stuart - Wortley. The pregnancy was either false or fraudulent; in any case the marriage remained childless.

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• Member of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)
• Journalist (United Kingdom)
• Politicians (19th Century )
• Politicians ( 20th century)
• Briton
• Born in 1861
• Died in 1917
• Man