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 560 CROSS CROSS OF BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS VISCOUNTCY. I. Richard Assheton Cross, 3rd s. of William C.,(") of Red Scar and Cottam, Dep. Prothonotary for I. 1886. CO. Lancaster, by Ellen, da. and coh. of Edward Chaffers, of Everton and Liverpool; was b. 30 May 1823, at Red Scar, and bap. at Grimsargh, in Preston, co. Lancaster; ed. at Rugby, from Aug. 1836, and at Trinity Coll. Cambridge; Pres. of Cam- bridge Union Soc, i845;('') B.A., 1846; Student (Line. Inn) 1844; Barrister (Inner Temple), 1849; Bencher, May 1876; M.P. (Conservative) for Preston, 1857-62; for S.W. Lancashire, 1868-85; and for the Newton Division, 1885-86; P.C. 21 Feb. 1874; Home Secretary, Feb. 1874 to Aug. 1880, and June 1885 to Feb. i886;C=) Hon. D.C.L., Oxford, 13 June 1877; Hon. LL.D., Cambridge, 1878, and of St. Andrew's 1885; F.R.S. 3 Apr. 1879; G.C.B., 20 Apr. i88o;('^) Sec. of State for India, Aug. 1886 to Aug. 1892. On 19 Aug. 1886 he was cr. VISCOUNT CROSS OF BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS, co. Lancaster. G.C.S.I., I Aug. 1892; Chanc. of the Duchy of Lancaster June to July 1895; Privy Seal June 1895 to Nov. i900;('') Treasurer of the Inner Temple 1895. He OT., 4 May 1852, at St. Matthew's, Stretton, co. Chester, Georgiana, 3rd da. of Thomas Lyon, of Appleton Hall, co. Chester, by Eliza, da. of George Clayton, of Lostock Hall, co. Lancaster. She, who was C.I., d. of heart failure following influenza, in her 80th year, at Eccle Riggs, CO. Lancaster, 20, and was bur. 24 Jan. 1 907, at Broughton-in-Furness. [William Henry Cross, 2nd but ist surv.(') s. and h. ap., b. 22 Aug. 1856, at Appleton Hall. M.P. for Liverpool 1888-92. He m., 19 Aug. 1880, at St. Anne's Church, Thwaits, Cumberland, Mary, da. of William Lewthwaite, of Broadgate, in that co. He d. of typhoid fever, II Dec. 1892, at 93 St. George's Road, Pimlico, aged },(>. His widow was b. 8 Mar. 1855.] (*) He was only s. of John Cross, also Dep. Prothonotary for co. Lancaster, by Dorothea, da. of Richard Assheton, of Preston, co. Lancaster, a scion of the family of that name long settled at Downham, Cuerdale, and Whalley in that county. C") For a list of peers who have been Presidents of the Union Soc. at Oxford or at Cambridge, see vol. iv, Appendix F. V.G. (■=) He is described in Men and Manners in Parliament, 1 874, as "a sensible, amiable, shrewd man of business, but neither a strong man nor a great administrator." He proved in fact a particularly capable Home Secretary. He is one of the numerous peers who are or have been directors of public companies, ror a list of whom (in 1896) see vol. v. Appendix C. It is said that he acted as private financial adviser to Queen Victoria. V.G. {^) This was considered a novel reward for a politician and minister, and led to the grantee's nickname of " Grand Cross." (<=) For this and the great offices of State see vol. ii, Appendix D. (') His elder br., Thomas Richard Cross, b. 23 Apr. 1853, ^' '"■P- ^"'^ unm., 22 Sep. 1873. V.G.