Herbert Shepherd-Cross was an English Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906.

Cross was born at Mortfield, Halliwell, Bolton the son of Thomas Cross J.P. of Ruddinglon Hall, Nottinhamshire and Mortfield, Lancashire and his wife Ellen Mann, daughter of Joseph Mann of Liverpool. He was educated at Seafield House School at Lytham St Anne's, Harrow School

Harrow School

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 and Exeter College, Oxford

Exeter College, Oxford

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. He was a partner in the Mortfield Bleach Works. He was a J.P.

Justice of the Peace

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 for Lancashire and Hertfordshire and a captain in the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry Cavalry

Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry

The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry has its origins in the various troops of light horse raised in the eighteenth century in the county of Lancaster, the earliest of which was the Bolton Light Horse formed in 1798....

. In 1884, he assumed the name Shepherd-Cross by Royal Licence.

At the 1885 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1885

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 Shepherd-Cross was elected MP

Member of Parliament

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 for Bolton

Bolton (UK Parliament constituency)

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. He held the seat until 1906. In 1896 he purchased the Palewell estate at East Sheen

East Sheen

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for development, and within a few years 150 houses had been built there.

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

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