Richard Assheton Cross, MP, Home Secretary Frank Tenney Johnson Building a tribal homestead

Building a tribal homestead

1st Earl Cairns

Childrens party at the sector boundary Berlin 15th August 1953

The coronation of King George IV in Westminster Abbey

Richard Assheton Cross, MP, Home Secretary Frank Tenney Johnson Building a tribal homesteadRichard Assheton Cross, MP, Home Secretary, 1880. First elected to Parliament as a Conservative MP in 1857, Cross 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 for introducing the social reform