page_title: Edward Cust
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Cust / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Mary Anne Cust Lady Cust (née Boode) (1799–1882), British naturalist and scientific illustrator.
context_page_description: Sir Edward Cust, 1st Baronet, KCH was a British soldier, politician and courtier.
context_section_description: Cust married in 1821 Mary Anne Boode, daughter of Lewis William Boode of Peover Hall in Cheshire. They had a son and five daughters. The Boode family were Dutch planters in Demerara, Lewis William being originally Lodewijk Willem Boode, and the brother of Andreas Christian Boode (1763–1844). Mary inherited from her mother Margaret, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Dannett of Liverpool and a widow by 1802, the Greenwich Park estate in Demerara, on her death c.1827. Before Margaret's death, in the 1823–4 parliamentary session, Cust was appointed to the committee of the West India planters and merchants there.
  Mary Cust was lady of the bedchamber to Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. A further family property inherited from her mother was Leasowe Castle. Edward Cust received half the compensation for the enslaved people on the Greenwich Park estate under the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
  The couple had a son and five daughters.  The children were:
  Sir Leopold Cust, 2nd Baronet (1831–1878), married 1863 Charlotte Sobieski Isabel Bridgeman.
  Louisa Mary Ann (died 1863), married in 1862 the Rev. John James Moss. He was the son of John Moss (1782–1858), the plantation owner and Liverpool banker.
  Victoria Mary Louisa (died 1895) married 1846 Simon Yorke III (died 1894) of Erddig.
  Ethelred or Etheldreda Victoria (died 1893), married 1864 Charles Henry Congreve (died 1875).
  Margaret Amy Frances, married 1850 Charles Randle Egerton R.N. (died 1869). His father, Wilbraham Egerton of Tatton Park, had been executor for Margaret Boode.
  Henrietta Maria Christina (died 1846), did not marry.
caption: Mary Anne Cust, 1836 engraving
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