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rebellion. Cust was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn on 13 August 1857. Cust returned to India and served in Lahore at the request of Sir John Lawrence but left again for England when his first wife died on 17 January 1864. He then returned to join the legislative council and acted as home secretary to the government (1864–65). In 1867 his second wife died in childbirth and he decided to retire from Indian service even though he was just nine months away from completing the tenure needed to receive a full pension.
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After retiring to England Cust devoted himself to scientific research, philanthropy, and magisterial and municipal duties, declining reappointments in India. He was a member and officer in many scientific, philanthropic, and religious societies and a prolific writer. He was one of the few Victorian
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Cust returned to England briefly on furlough and returned to work in Benares and Banda. For his work he was offered the high post of magistrate and collector at Delhi. He declined the offer and went on furlough again to England in 1857. The officer who took up the post became a victim of the 1857
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intellectuals to oppose the racist theories popular at the time. Along with John Bradford Whiting, Cust was against the abandonment of Henry Venn's policy of developing indigenous leadership in Africa. In 1883 he wrote:
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Clouds on the Horizon: An Essay on the Various Forms of Belief, Which Stand in the Way of Acceptance of Real Christian Faith by Educated Natives of Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania
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in 1845–46, where his superior Major George Broadfoot was killed and at the close of the Sikh campaign he was placed in charge of a new province in the
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The Liquor Traffic in British India: Or, Has the British Government Done Its Duty? An Answer to Venerable Archdeacon Farrar and Mr. Samuel Smith
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Notice of the Scholars who have Contributed to the Extension of our Knowledge of the Languages of British India during the last Thirty Years
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The Shrines of Lourdes, Zaragossa, the Holy Stairs at Rome, the Holy House of Loretto and Nazareth, and St. Ann at Jerusalem
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the vast majority of the educated public appears to have accepted at least some aspect of the new racial doctrine.
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Draft Bill of Codes Regulating Rights in Land and Land-Revenue Procedure in Northern India
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Essay on the Prevailing Method of the Evangelization of the Non-Christian World
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Essay on the National Custom of British India: Known as Caste, Varna, or Jati
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Oecumenical List of Translations of the Holy Scriptures to 1900
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on 10 May 1856. They had two sons and three daughters (one was
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Common Features Which Appear in All Forms of Religious Belief
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The Opium Question; or, Is India to be Sacrificed to China?
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People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
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Three Lists of Bible Translations Actually Accomplished
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Cust was first married to Maria Adelaide, daughter of
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Robert Needham Cust, 1821-1909: A Personal Biography
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A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies
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Orientalism
British and Foreign Bible Society

Henry Cockayne Cust
Canon of Windsor
Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow
Earl of Kilmorey
Henry Cockayne-Cust
Reginald Cust
Eton College
Trinity College, Cambridge
Haileybury
College of Fort William, Calcutta
East India Company
Hoshiarpur
Ambala
Mudki
Ferozeshah
Sobraon
Punjab
Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra
The Times
King William IV
Queen Adelaide
Queen Victoria
Henry Lewis Hobart
Dean of Windsor
Albinia Wherry
A Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies

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