Viscount Cross

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

[1] It was created in 1886 for the Conservative politician Sir R. A.

His eldest son the Honourable William Cross represented Liverpool West Derby in Parliament between 1888 and his early death in 1892.

His eldest son, the third Viscount, inherited as a minor and attended the 1937 Coronation of King George VI at the age of 17.

[2] He had two daughters but no sons and on the latter's death in 2004 the viscountcy became extinct.