More New Peers

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 25, 10 August 1886, Page 3

More New Peers

Sir R. Crass and Colonel Staaky,. who were appointed respectively Secof State for India and President of the Board of Trade, hate been raised ■lotke peerage. : Tke Bight Hen. Sir Eiohard Assheton Cross was born at Red Scar, near Preston, on May 30th, 1823. He was educated^ &% Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took tfce decree of BJA. in 1846. In 1849 ha was called to the bar, and fo several years he went the Northern Circuit. In 1857 he was elected M.P. for Preston! At the General Election of 1863 k& cam© forward as a candidate for South-West Lancashire in opposition to Mr Gladstone. The contest was watched with extraordinary interest. Mr Cross was returned at th« head e£ the .poll, the voting, being as follows:— For M* Gross (C.), 7729 ; for Mr Turner (0.), 7676 ; f»r Mr Gladstone (L.), 7415; for Mr Orenfell (L.), 6939. On the formation of Mr Disraeli's Government, in 1874, Mr" Orbiss was appointed Home Secretary, 'which position: he held in; the Marquis of Salisbury's last adminißtr^Qn. • Th# Right Hon. Frederick Arthur Stanley is the younger son of the 14th, and brother of the present, .Earl of Derby.' He was born in London in 1841, -and was educated at Eton. In 1858 he entered the- Grenadier Guards from which he retired in 1865, when lie entered the House of Commons as member for Preaton.t He.,waa a Lord of the Admiralty from August to December, 1868, and Financial Secretary for War from February, 1874, to August, 1877, when he became Financial Secretary to the Treasury. On April 2nd, 1878, he was appointed Secretary of "State for War in; succession to> Mr Hardy* how Lord <3ranbrook. On. the . formation ofc Lord Salisbury's 'Ministry^in 1 885, ' he was appointed Secretary fer .the Colonies." Colonel --Stanley i* hwt: presumptive, to the Earldom' of -Derby.; : '.';*