Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, British statesman mb-height 7238 'Head of Christ Crowned with

'Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns'

orbiting around it

Cassell and Company

Clerk to the Committee of Warehouses of the East India Company

inscribed above in ink: 'A Pilot Fish taken in the Latitude of 10 Degrees South near Cape St Augustine

Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, British statesman mb-height 7238 'Head of Christ Crowned withRichard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, British statesman, c1890. First elected to Parliament as a Conservative MP in 1857, Cross (1823 1914) came to prominence in the General Election of 1868, when standing in South West Lancashire, he defeated Gladstone, then at the height of his popularity. In Disraeli's government of 1874 1880, Cross was appointed Home Secretary, despite having no previous ministerial experience, and as such was responsible