Cust Point


Cust Point (50˚29'00" 125˚42'00" S side of Forward Hbr, E of Hardwicke I, N of Johnstone Str). Lady Florence Harriet Lascelles (1838–1901) was a sister of Lt Horace Lascelles, who was in command of HMS Forward, a gunboat on the BC coast, 1861–65 (see Lascelles Point). She married Lt Col John Francis Cust (1825–1903) in 1861. Nearby Florence Point is also named for her. Lascelles was a British aristocrat, a son of the 3rd Earl of Harewood, and in 1865, Lt Daniel Pender named many...

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