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 Mortfield, Halliwell, Bolton the son of Thomas Cross J.P. of Ruddington Hall, Nottinghamshire and Mortfield, Lancashire and his wife Ellen Mann, daughter of Joseph Mann of Liverpool.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886
/ref> He was educated at Seafield House School at

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and Exeter College, Oxford. 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. At the 1885 general election Shepherd-Cross was elected MP for Bolton. He held the seat until 1906. In 1896 he purchased the Palewell estate at East Sheen for development, and within a few years 150 houses had been built there. He also bequeathed land in his will to what would become

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. He purchased land adjacent to Clapham Common Northside in Battersea, from Thomas Wallis in September 1894, where he developed terraced housing after 1895.Bailey, Keith Alan (1995). The metamorphosis of Battersea, 1800-1914: a building history. PhD thesis The Open University.

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

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* 1847 births 1916 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry officers {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1840s-stub