Surname: Cross Forename(s): Albert Francis b. 1863. d. 1940. Nationality: English.
Poet, playwright, journalist, newspaper proprietor and editor. Alternative signature:
“A. F. Cross.” Born in Loughborough, and later lived in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Founder
of the George Eliot Fellowship. Author of Songs and Sonnets (1884), Virginia, and Other Poems (1887). Biographical information: Reilly, Late Victorian Poetry, p. 117. (AC)