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    Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, GCB, GCSI, PC, FRS, DL (30 May 1823 – 8 January 1914), known before his elevation to the peerage as R. A. Cross, was a British...
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    Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross (1823–1914) Hon. William Henry Cross (1856–1892) Richard Assheton Cross, 2nd Viscount Cross (1882–1932) Assheton...
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  • Cross (disambiguation) Peter Cross (disambiguation) Philip Cross (1826–1888), Irish murderer R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross (1823–1914), British statesman...
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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...
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  • Richard Cross is the name of: Richard Cross (died c. 1438), MP for Reading (UK Parliament constituency) R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross (1823–1914), British...
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    Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon, GCB, GCMG, PC, FRS (19 August 1857 – 1 November 1941) was a British politician, diplomat, art collector and author...
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  • Henry Cross (22 August 1856 – 11 December 1892) was a British Conservative politician. Cross was the eldest son of R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, by Georgiana...
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    Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone, (7 January 1854 – 6 March 1930) was a British Liberal politician. The youngest son of William Ewart Gladstone...
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    Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury GCMG GCVO OBE MC PC DL (6 March 1887 – 30 January 1971) was a British Conservative politician. He served as a government...
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    1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, KG, GCB, OM, DSO & Bar, MC, DL (21 May 1893 – 22 April 1971) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as a bomber...
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    Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos, KG, DSO, MC, PC (15 March 1893 – 21 January 1972) was a British businessman from the Lyttelton family who was...
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    founded. Crosses moline appear most notably in the arms of the following: Families: Molyneux, a mediaeval Anglo-French family, Earl of Sefton, Viscount Molyneux...
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    Shepherd Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, GCMG, MC, PC, QC (10 August 1893 – 3 February 1961), was a British politician. He was a long-serving cabinet...
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  • List of governors-general of India (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Created Earl Amherst in 1826. Created Earl of Auckland in 1839. Created Viscount Hardinge in 1846. Created Marquess of Dalhousie 1849. Created Earl Canning...
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    Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, GCB, GCVO, KCMG, ISO, PC (16 July 1837 – 15 August 1924) was a British courtier. He served as Private Secretary...
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    Arthur Hamilton Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham, (8 November 1868 – 21 July 1947), was an English soldier, diplomat, politician, philanthropist and patron...
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    Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MVO, MC (10 July 1886 – 31 March 1946) was a senior British Army officer. As a young officer...
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    Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, (24 February 1880 – 7 May 1959), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was a senior British Conservative...
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    Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, (12 August 1868 – 1 April 1933), styled the Lord Chelmsford until 1921, was a British statesman. He served...
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    Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, KP, GCB, GCSI, PC (3 November 1779 – 2 March 1869) was a senior British Army officer. After serving as a junior officer...
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    letters first to the Secretary of State for the province, R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, and then to Alfred Comyn Lyall, who was the Lieutenant-Governor...
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    power one or two days were allotted annually in every council to a discussion of a budget already settled by the executive government'. Ilbert 1911,...
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    26 January 1946 appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George and created Viscount Alexander of Tunis, of Errigal in the...
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    Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, KStJ (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was a senior British Army officer and Imperial...
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    Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, (6 November 1870 – 5 February 1963) was a British Liberal politician who was the party leader from 1931 to 1935...
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  • November 1927. In 1923 he married Katherine Cross, granddaughter of the politician R. A. Cross, 1st Viscount Cross. He retired to Ambleside, Lancashire. 1...
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    which separated Burma and Aden under a new Burma Office, but the same secretary of state headed both departments and a new title was established as His Majesty's...
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    Bannatyne Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay, GCMG, PC (11 July 1842 – 9 March 1929), known as Sir Robert Finlay from 1895 to 1916, was a British barrister and...
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  • James Gray Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn, CH, MVO, MC*, PC (9 February 1897 – 20 February 1971) was a British Unionist politician. He was joint-Parliamentary...
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    Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO & Bar (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963), was a senior officer of the British...
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