Educated at Guy's Hospital. He began to practise in Scarborough in 1840, shortly afterwards going into partnership with Thomas Weddell, who died in 1862. He practised for more than forty years in Scarborough, and was a prominent public man. At one period he was Physician to the Royal Scarborough Sea-Bathing Infirmary and a member of the Committee of the Cliff Bridge Company. He was for thirty-six years Medical Officer to the Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society. Elected a member of the Scarborough Corporation on November 1st, 1849, when he headed the poll for the North Ward, he was re-elected with regularity until 1862, when he was made Alderman. He was Mayor in 1860-1861, and retired from civic duties in 1874. He was also a Magistrate for the Borough and a Trustee of the Municipal Charities, Medical Referee for the Railway Passengers and the Imperial Union Accident Companies, Surgeon Major on the Staff of the East and North Riding Brigade of the Yorkshire Artillery Volunteers, Ordnance Surgeon for Scarborough, Fellow of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical and Obstetric Societies, London, and a member of the British Medical Association. He was greatly honoured and esteemed for his professional and social qualities, his courtesy and geniality rendering him very popular. He was eulogized by John Marshall (qv) in his "Presidential Address" before the Medico-Chirurgical Society in March, 1883, as "eminent in both private and public practice", for his character, and as "an admirable example of a large class of provincial practitioners". Latterly Cross was in partnership with his son, Thomas Brown Cross, MA Cantab, MRCS. His professional address in Scarborough was 6 Queen Street. His death occurred on November 19th, 1882, about twelve hours after he had submitted to an amputation above the knee, for a tedious and painful disease of that joint. His funeral was celebrated with military honours and attended by the volunteers, the Mayor and Corporation, and others. Publication: "A Table of Obstetrical Studies." - *Lancet*, 1866, ii, 274, 456.