Richard Assheton Cross, MP, Home Secretary Size:L: 75 x 60cm Giant Sequoia tree

Giant Sequoia tree

Leon Trotsky at Brest-Litovsk

Kenney Jones and Jimmy Winston

Showing the optical properties of each of the minerals

Richard Assheton Cross, MP, Home Secretary Size:L: 75 x 60cm Giant Sequoia treeRichard Assheton Cross, MP, Home Secretary, 1880. First elected to Parliament as a Conservative MP in 1857, Cross came to prominence in the General Election of 1868, when standing in South West Lancashire, he defeated Gladstone, then at the height of his popularity. In Disraeli's government of 1874 1880, Cross was appointed Home Secretary, despite having no previous ministerial experience, and as such was responsible for introducing the social reform