Richard Cross, 1st Viscount Cross

Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross

Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross GCB GCSI PC FRS (* the 30th March 1823 in Red Scar in Preston , Lancashire , † 8. January 1914 in Broughton-in-Furness , Lancashire) was a British politician of the Conservative Party , the 23 For many years was a Member of the House of Commons and Minister of the Interior , Minister for India , Lord Seal Keeper and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . In 1886 he was raised to hereditary nobility as Viscount Cross and was a member of the House of Lords until his death .

Life

Lawyer, Member of the House of Commons and Minister of the Interior

Cross, whose father William Cross was temporarily Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire , completed after school attendance at the University of Cambridge , which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). After studying law , he took up a position as a barrister in 1849 after being admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Inner Temple .

On March 27, 1857, he was first elected as a candidate for the Conservative Party to the House of Commons, where he initially represented the constituency of Preston until 1862 . On November 17, 1868 he was re-elected for the Conservative Tories as a member of the House of Commons and only represented the constituency of Lancashire Southwest for more than 17 years , before he last between November 24, 1885 and August 19, 1886, the Newton constituency .

Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli appointed him on February 21, 1874 as Home Secretary in his government, of which he was a member until the end of Disraeli's term on April 23, 1880. In 1874 he was also appointed Privy Counselor (PC). During this time he was appointed to one of the so-called Bencher of the Bar Association of Inner Temple for his many years of legal services in 1876 and was also appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society .

On June 24, 1885, Cross took over again the office of Minister of the Interior in the cabinet of Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury and kept this until the end of his term on February 1, 1886.

Minister of India, Member of the House of Lords and Keeper of the Lord Seal

Richard Assheton Cross (caricature in Vanity Fair magazine , May 16, 1874)

After Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, took over the office of Prime Minister again on August 3, 1886, Cross became Secretary of State for India and remained in this ministerial office until the end of the Marquess of Salisbury's tenure on August 11 August 1892.

A few days after taking office as India Minister, Cross was raised to the hereditary nobility (Hereditary Peerage) by a letters patent dated August 19, 1886 as Viscount Cross, of Broughton-in-Furness , in the County of Lancaster and thus belonged to his death the House of Lords as a member. During this time he was awarded an honorary degree as Doctor of Law (LL.D.) from the University of Cambridge, the University of Leeds , the University of St Andrews and a Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) from the University of Oxford .

Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, appointed him to the third cabinet on June 25, 1895, this time until 1900 as Lord Privy Seal . At the same time he held the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from June 29 to July 4, 1895 temporarily.

Viscount Cross, who in 1895 also Treasurer (Treasurer) was the Bar Association of the Inner Temple, the dignity was a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI) as well as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath awarded (GCB). He has also served temporarily as a magistrate (justice of the peace) of Cheshire and Lancashire, as well as Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire.

His marriage to Georgina Lyon, daughter of Deputy Lieutenant Thomas Lyon, on May 4, 1852 resulted in two daughters and three sons. His eldest son, William Henry Cross, was a Member of the House of Commons for the constituency of Liverpool West Derby between 1888 and his death in 1892 . However, since he died before his father, his son Richard Assheton Cross inherited the title of 2nd Viscount Cross and the associated membership in the House of Lords after the death of his grandfather.

Web links

Commons : Richard Cross, 1st Viscount Cross  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Richard Cross at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Viscount Cross 1886-1914	Richard Cross