Equerry in Waiting to King George the Fifth

MDCCC LXIV ~ 1864

MDCCC CXXXI ~ 1931

Esse Quam Vederi

Third and Last Baronet of Leasowe

In the County Palatine of Chester

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal

Victorian Order in Waiting 

to His Majesty King George the Fifth

A Captain of the Royal Navy

The headstone is that of Sir Charles Leopold Cust, who was born on the 27th February 1864 and was the 3rd and last of the Cust Baronets when the title became extinct upon his death on the 19th January 1931. 

He served in the Royal Navy on HMS Minotaur, Alexandra and Thunderer and also as the Equerry in Waiting to King George V. He was awarded the following honours GCVO, CB, CMG . 

He rests in the Churchyard of St.Peter and St.Pauls, Belton, Lincolnshire. 

Baron Brownlow ~ Cust Family Vault

This grand tomb, belonging to the Cust Family, stands in the churchyard of St.Peter and St. Paul's Parish Church, that adjoins the Brownlow Cust 

Family's Ancestral home, Belton House in Lincolnshire.  

Belton House is now owned by The National Trust

Although I took these and a few other photos of interest whilst visiting Belton. My picture of this stone tablet inside the vault, has not turned out as legible as I'd hoped for, so reading it has been made difficult. The inscription on it below, is the best that I can decipher at the moment, but we will return there and I will update this post later.

Beneath this Shrine are deposited the mortal remains of,

the Rt. Hon. Lady Isabella Mary Cust daughter of,

Charles William Duke of Buccleuch and ?

and wife of the Hon. Peregrine Francis Cust ME

?

by the fatal progress of an unrelenting ?

after child-birth on the sixth anniversary of their marriage

She died on the 29th year of her age

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Flat Pack Tombs

I imagined that these tombs have been stacked like this, due to them becoming unstable and dangerous. Although they may be safer, they reminded me of Flat Pack furniture ~ a DIY tombstone erecting Option.

They 'stand ~ lay' in the Churchyard of St. Wulframs in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

There are only two churches in England that bear the name of St. Wulframs, the other being in Ovingdean, Sussex. 

St. Wulfram is a patron Saint that protects against the 'Dangers of the Sea', which seems an odd choice of Saint for the mainly agricultural people of Grantham ~ with the coast being at least 36 miles away.

    

Wednesday's Child

David

the

Beloved

Little Son

of

Peregrine

and

Katherine

Brownlow

March 9 1930 March 15 1931

How little a boy to leave so

great a grief

Little David was the son of Peregrine Francis Adelbert Cust ~ 6th Baron Brownlow , close friend and Lord~in~Waiting to the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VIII.

Peregrine Cust stands on the right, next to Wallis Simpson.

On Sunday we discovered the small headstone of David, whilst we were visiting Belton House in Lincolnshire, which was the ancestral home of the Cust family.

A small gate beside the Orangery, led to the Parish Church of St.Peter and St. Paul's. There are some wonderful tombs there and I shall post some of them in the near future.

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