Background
Cross was the only son of the Honourable William Cross, eldest son of R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross. His mother was Mary, daughter of William Lewthwaite, of Broadgate, Cumberland.
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Cross was the only son of the Honourable William Cross, eldest son of R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross. His mother was Mary, daughter of William Lewthwaite, of Broadgate, Cumberland.
Eton; University College, Oxford. Master of Arts.
His father died when Cross was ten. Lord Cross was private secretary to successive Permanent Secretaries to the Treasury from 1912 to 1917. The latter year he was appointed Principal Secretary to The Treasury, a post he held until his death 15 years later.
Lord Cross married Maud Evelyn Inigo Jones, daughter of Major-General Inigo Richmund Jones, in 1918.
The Viscountess Cross died in April 1976.
Club: Bath.