David A. Cross was born in Barrow-in-Furness and graduated from Durham University, taking his M.A. (by research) at Lancaster University, followed some years later by his Ph.D. He taught English in both independent and maintained schools. After 1987 he contributed to extra-mural art history classes for Liverpool, Lancaster and Newcastle Universities and now lives in Carlisle. An honorary research fellow of University College, Durham he is the most recent biographer of George Romney.
