Herbert Shepherd-Cross

Shepherd-Cross in 1895.

Herbert Shepherd-Cross (1 January 1847 – 9 January 1916) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906.

Cross was born at , Halliwell, Bolton the son of J.P. of Ruddington Hall, Nottinghamshire and Mortfield, Lancashire and his wife Ellen Mann, daughter of Joseph Mann of Liverpool.^[1] He was educated at Seafield House School at Lytham St Annes, Harrow School and Exeter College, Oxford.^[2] He was a partner in the Mortfield Bleach Works. He was a J.P. for Lancashire and Hertfordshire and a captain in the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry Cavalry. In 1884, he assumed the name Shepherd-Cross by Royal Licence.^[1]

At the 1885 general election Shepherd-Cross was elected MP for Bolton. He held the seat until 1906.^[3] In 1896 he purchased the Palewell estate at East Sheen for development, and within a few years 150 houses had been built there.^[4] He also bequeathed land in his will to what would become All Saints Church, East Sheen.^[5] He purchased land adjacent to Clapham Common Northside in Battersea, from Thomas Wallis in September 1894, where he developed terraced housing after 1895.^[6]

Shepherd married in 1870 Lucy Mary Shepherd Birley daughter of Rev. John Shepherd Birley of Kirkham, Lancashire.

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886
^ Famous Boltonians
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 4)
^ Barnes History
^ Halfpenny Green - Postcards from Barnes and Mortlake. Picton. pp. 40–41. ISBN 0-948251-78-6.
^ Bailey, Keith Alan (1995). The metamorphosis of Battersea, 1800-1914: a building history. PhD thesis The Open University. [1]

External links[]

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Herbert Shepherd-Cross

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Kynaston Cross John Pennington Thomasson	Member of Parliament for Bolton 1885–1906 With: Francis Bridgeman 1885–1895 George Harwood 1895–1906	Succeeded by Alfred Henry Gill George Harwood

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[Debrett-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886

[2] Famous Boltonians

[3] Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 4)

[4] Barnes History

[5] Halfpenny Green - Postcards from Barnes and Mortlake. Picton. pp. 40–41. ISBN 0-948251-78-6.

[6] Bailey, Keith Alan (1995). The metamorphosis of Battersea, 1800-1914: a building history. PhD thesis The Open University. [1]

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