Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, British statesman Product:Framed picture Signed in ink lower left

Signed in ink lower left 'Franz Bauer del

with the Promoter Life Insurance Company offices in the centre and telegraph office at left

Radical petitioners are staggering back from the blast issuing from the Regent's posterior

and boats on the river

Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, British statesman Product:Framed picture Signed in ink lower leftRichard 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