3-052-494 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Very Rev. A. Purey Cust, Dean of York, 1880. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Maull and Co. 'The Ven. Arthur Perceval Purey-Cust, Archdeacon of Buckingham, was lately appointed to the Deanery of York...He is the only surviving son of the late Hon. William Cust, by his marriage with Sophia, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Newnham...He is thus a grandson of the first Lord Brownlow. The new Dean was born in February, 1828. He was educated at Brasenose, where he took his Bachelor's degree in Easter Term, 1850, and was afterwards Fellow of All Souls', where he graduated M.A. in due course. He was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Oxford (Dr. Wilberforce) in 1851, and was admitted into priest's orders by the Bishop of Rochester (Dr. Murray) in the following year. He was successively curate of Northchurch, Hertfordshire, and Rector of Cheddington, Buckinghamshire, from 1853 to 1862, when he became Vicar of St. Mary's, Reading. He was subsequently appointed Rural Dean of Reading, and Archdeacon of Buckingham in 1875, when he also succeeded the Prolocutor in the vicarage of Aylesbury, but resigned that living in the following year. He was made an Honorary Canon of Christ Church in 1874. He married, in 1854, Lady Emma Bess Bligh'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.