Born 20 November 1870 at Stoke Newington, Middlesex, the fifth child and fourth son of Thomas John Cross, tea merchant, and his wife, *née* Edmunds. He was educated at Tonbridge School and at Dulwich College. At Guy's Hospital he served as house surgeon, resident obstetric officer and demonstrator of pathology. He practised at Beckenham, Kent 1902-04, and from 1904 in partnership with W H Roots and later P Black at Surbiton and Kingston-on-Thames, until September 1912, when he went to Las Palmas, where he became surgeon to the British Hospital. During the first world war he served at Mudros, in Egypt, and in India from November 1916 to April 1919, where he was surgeon specialist to the southern command at Bangalore. He returned to Las Palmas in October 1919, left there in November 1930 and settled at Sidmouth. He married Greta Miller on 3 July 1906. She survived him but without children. He died suddenly at Sidmouth on 29 October 1940.