Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
(1823-1914), Politician; Home SecretarySitter 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, empowering municipalities to buy and demolish slums and to build housing for rental; the Factory Act, regulating the employment of women and children in textile mills; the Public Health Act, a comprehensive sanitary code; and two statutes reinterpreting Gladstone's trade-union legislation. Cross returned to office 1885-86, but was given the lighter duty of Secretary for India, (1886-92). A close friend of the Queen, he was an able and popular parliamentarian and administrator.
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Sir Hubert von Herkomer
oil on canvas, 1882
NPG 2946
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, after 1873
NPG Ax39855
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1880
NPG Ax17585
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Lock & Whitfield
woodburytype, 1880 or before
NPG x7048
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Fradelle & Young
carbon print, circa 1880; published before 1895
NPG Ax15931
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen cabinet card, 1880s-1900s
NPG x17083
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1881
NPG Ax18282
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
woodburytype, published 1881
NPG Ax27782
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Unknown photographer
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1881
NPG x196257
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1883
NPG x96573
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1883
NPG x96574
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1883
NPG x96575
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1883
NPG x96576
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Alexander Bassano
half-plate glass negative, 1883
NPG x96577
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Walery, published by Sampson Low & Co
carbon print, published June 1890
NPG Ax38328
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by York & Son, after Unknown photographer
glass lantern slide, 1890s
NPG x3633
Various politicians and others
by and after Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1890s
NPG Ax139904
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by James Russell & Sons
carbon print, published 20 June 1891
NPG x7049
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Fradelle & Young
carbon print
NPG Ax15955
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Faustin Betbeder ('Faustin')
chromolithograph, 1874
NPG D23044
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross ('Statesmen. No. 171.')
by Carlo Pellegrini
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 16 May 1874
NPG D43640
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, 1877 or after
NPG D20762
by Théobald Chartran ('T')
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 5 July 1881
NPG D44020
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Maclure & Macdonald, after Fradelle
chromolithograph, published 21 April 1883
NPG D34402
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
after Henry Tanworth Wells
collotype, circa 1890
NPG D9706
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Fradelle & Young
carbon print, circa 1880
NPG x7050
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
by Unknown photographer
woodburytype
NPG x7065
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross; Maud Evelyn Inigo (née Jones), Viscountess Cross
by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative
NPG x82003
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