[Viscount]. English statesman, born near Preston, Lancashire, on the 30th of May 1823. He was educated at Rugby under Dr. Arnold, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Mr. Cross entered Parliament in 1857, and became Home Secretary under Mr. Disraeli’s administration, February 24, 1880, resigning when the Conservatives went out of office in April 1880. Mr. Cross again served as Home Secretary in the short administration of Lord Salisbury in 1885. After the general election of 1886 he was created a peer, and became Secretary for India in Lord Salisbury’s administration. In Lord Salisbury’s third Ministry Viscount Cross was again given a place in the Cabinet as Lord Privy Seal. He was made a G.C.B. and a G.C.S.I.
