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Henry John Cockayne Oust

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OUST, HENRY JOHN COCKAYNE Eng lish journalist, was born in London on Oct. Io, 1861, and edu cated at Eton and Trinity college, Cambridge. He was Unionist member for Stamford from 1890 to 1895, and for Bermondsey from 190o to 1906. From 1892 to 1896 he was editor of the Pall .Mall Gazette. In Aug. 1914, he founded the Central Committee for National Patriotic Organizations, and a Cust annual lecture "on some important current topic relating to the British empire" was endowed in Nottingham university to commemorate his work. His Occasional Poems appeared in 1918, printed in Jerusalem. He died in London on March 2, 1917.

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