Maria Eleanor Vere Cust
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| Miss Maria Eleanor Vere Cust FRGS, MRAS | |||||||||
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| Born | 1862 | ||||||||
| Died | 1958 | ||||||||
| Residence |
127 Victoria Street, Westminster c/o Rev. R.R. Howen Brown, The Vicarage, Enfield [1909] Twyford House, Fishpool Street, St Albans [1911] | ||||||||
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Maria Eleanor Vere
Cust * 1862
Born: 30th Sep 1862
Cust, Maria Eleanor Vere (1862/1863-1958), first woman fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, was the second daughter of Robert Needham Cust (1821-1909), orientalist, and his first wife, Maria Adelaide Hobart (d. 1864), daughter of Henry Lewis Hobart, dean of Windsor. Miss Cust acted for many years as her father's secretary
Father was orientalist, Robert Needham Cust, who was an active member of AI and RGS and strongly advocated the admission of women as fellows to the latter. Died Watford. The first woman to be admitted as a fellow of RGS.
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External Publications
Lucem Sequor and other poems by Maria Eleanor Vere Cust
