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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.
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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.
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- 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, 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.
Papers of Richard Assheton Cross, G.C.B., 1880, created Viscount Cross, 1886. Conservative M.P. for Preston, 1857-1862; for S.W. Lancs., 1868-1885; for Newton Division, 1885-1886. Home...
Portrait of Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross; three-quarter length, seated to right with legs crossed and head turned to look towards the viewer, holding spectacles in his right hand which he touches with the left; wearing dark open jacket over buttoned waistcoat; after a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company.
