Sir Alfred Rupert Neale Cross QC FBA (15 June 1912 in Chelsea, London – 12 September 1980, Oxford) was an English legal scholar.
He received great help and encouragement from Theo Tyler, Fellow and Tutor in Law at Balliol College, Oxford.
[2] On the retirement of Harold Hanbury, Cross was elected Vinerian Professor of English Law in the University of Oxford, a position he held from 1964 to 1979.
He played several times in the top section of the British Chess Championship in the 1930s (for which only an elite group of twelve players qualified).
This book has been sufficiently well regarded that two posthumous editions have been produced, under the editorship of John Bell and George Engle.