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)