Cust, ROBERT NEEDHAM

Cust, ROBERT NEEDHAM, was born in 1821, at Cockayne-Hatley, Bedfordshire, studied at Eton, and entered the Indian civil service. He held various important administrative and judicial posts in North India, in 1864–65 was a member of the legislative council, and returned to England in 1869. He is a member of many learned societies at home and abroad, has contributed extensively to their Transactions, and has published works on the modern languages of the East Indies (1878), of Africa (1882), and of Oceania, as well as Linguistic and Oriental Essays and Sketches of Anglo-Indian Life.