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Archer Cust (2nd from right) with members of Shaw Commission 1929

Colonel Sir Lionel George Archer Cust Шаблон:Post-nominals (6 June 1896 – 22 May 1962) was a British civil servant, art historian, and General Secretary of the Royal Empire Society.

He was the son of Sir Lionel Henry Cust, grandson of Henry Cockayne Cust, and great-grandson of Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow and Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey. He was educated at Eton and joined the Royal Artillery.[1]

He received the OBE in 1939 and the CBE in 1954. He was knighted in 1959. He was a member of the Mandatory Palestine Civil Service from 1920-36. From December 1928 he was the Private Secretary to the High Commissioner of Palestine.[2]

Cust is notable for authoring the best known summary of the Status quo of Holy Land sites in 1929: The Status Quo in the Holy Places.[3]

He was a cousin of Ronald Storrs.[4]

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  2. Official Gazette of the Government of Palestine, Number 232, 1 April 1939, page 265.
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