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Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, GCB, GCSI, PC, FRS, DL (30 May 1823 – 8 January 1914), known before his elevation to the peerage as R. A. Cross, was a British Conservative politician. He was Home Secretary from 1874 to 1880, and from 1885 to 1886.
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross was a British statesman responsible for the first urban renewal authorization in Great Britain, the Artizans’ and Labourers’ Dwellings Improvement Act (generally known as the first Cross Act) of 1875.
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Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, GCB, GCSI, PC, FRS (30 May 1823 – 8 January 1914), known before his elevation to the peerage as R. A. Cross, was a British statesman and Conservative politician. He notably served as Home Secretary between 1874 and 1880 and 1885 and 1886.
- Georgiana Cross
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- January 08, 1914 (90)
- May 30, 1823
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross. (1823-1914), Politician; Home Secretary. Sitter in 28 portraits. Cross was called to the Bar in 1849 and entered Parliament as a Conservative MP in 1857. Appointed Home Secretary (1872-80) by Disraeli, Cross played a large part in the social reforms of the time. In 1875 he brought in The Cross Act, ...
Richard Assheton Cross. In 1886, Richard Assheton Cross (1823-1914) (pictured) was appointed to lead an inquiry into the effectiveness of the system which these Acts had provided for. Cross was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College Cambridge, and was called to the Bar in 1849.
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross,, known before his elevation to the peerage as R. A. Cross, was a British Conservative politician. He was Home Secretary from 1874 to 1880, and from 1885 to 1886.
Lord Cross married in 1852 Georgiana (died 1907), third daughter of Thomas Lyon, of Appleton Hall, near Warrington, by whom he had four sons and three daughters. His two elder sons predeceased him, and he was succeeded as second viscount by his grandson, Richard Assheton Cross (born 1882).
