Cross was born at Mortfield, Halliwell, Bolton the son of Thomas Cross J.P. of Ruddington Hall, Nottinghamshire and Mortfield, Lancashire and his wife Ellen Mann, daughter of Joseph Mann of Liverpool.
[3] In 1896 he purchased the Palewell estate at East Sheen for development and within a few years 150 houses had been built there.
[5] He purchased land adjacent to Clapham Common Northside in Battersea, from Thomas Wallis in September 1894, where he developed terraced housing after 1895.
The memorial to Herbert Shepherd-Cross in St Peter's Church, Tewin, Hertfordshire.
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