Background
Cross was born at Mortfield, Halliwell, Bolton the son of Thomas Cross Justice of the Peace of Ruddinglon Hall, Nottinghamshire and Mortfield, Lancashire and his wife Ellen Mann, daughter of Joseph Mann of Liverpool.
Cross was born at Mortfield, Halliwell, Bolton the son of Thomas Cross Justice of the Peace of Ruddinglon Hall, Nottinghamshire and Mortfield, Lancashire and his wife Ellen Mann, daughter of Joseph Mann of Liverpool.
He was educated at Seafield House School at Lytham Street Annes, Harrow School and Exeter College, Oxford.
He was a partner in the Mortfield Bleach Works. He was a Justice of the Peace for Lancashire and Hertfordshire and a captain in the Duke of Lancaster"s Own Yeomanry Cavalry. In 1884, he assumed the name Shepherd-Cross by Royal Licence.
At the 1885 general election Shepherd-Cross was elected Member of Parliament for Bolton.
He held the seat until 1906. In 1896 he purchased the Palewell estate at East Sheen for development, and within a few years 150 houses had been built there.
He also bequeathed land in his will to what would become All Saints Church, East Sheen. Shepherd married in 1870 Lucy Mary Shepherd Birley daughter of Review
John Shepherd Birley of Kirkham, Lancashire.
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