Viscount Cross, of Broughton-in-Furness in the County of Lancaster, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1886 for the Conservative

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 politician Sir R. A. Cross. His eldest son the Hon. William Cross

William Cross (British politician)

The Honourable William Henry Cross , was a British Conservative politician.Cross was the eldest son of R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, by Georgiana, daughter of Thomas Lyon, DL, of Appleton Hall, Cheshire...

 represented Liverpool West Derby in Parliament between 1888 and his early death in 1892. Lord Cross was succeeded by his grandson, the second Viscount, only son of the Hon. William Cross. He was Principal Secretary to The Treasury

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 from 1917 to 1932. His eldest son, the third Viscount, had two daughters but no sons and on the latter's death in 2004 the viscountcy became extinct.

Viscounts Cross (1886)

• Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
  R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
  Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, GCB, GCSI, PC, FRS , known before his elevation to the peerage as R. A. Cross, was a British statesman and Conservative politician...
  
   (1823–1914)
  • William Henry Cross
    William Cross (British politician)
    The Honourable William Henry Cross , was a British Conservative politician.Cross was the eldest son of R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, by Georgiana, daughter of Thomas Lyon, DL, of Appleton Hall, Cheshire...
    
     (1856–1892)
• Richard Assheton Cross, 2nd Viscount Cross (1882–1932)
• Assheton Henry Cross, 3rd Viscount Cross (1920–2004)