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Arthur Cross was an organist at Sandringham Church from 1878 to his death in 1906.

He married Alice Sargeant in 1884 and moved to Dersingham to become organist and choirmaster at St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham in 1878. He was appointed by the Prince of Wales who would later become Edward VII.

He conducted the King's Lynn and the Hunstanton Amateur Operatic Societies, which he set up in 1901. The society's first production was Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience at the Town Hall.

Arthur also worked with the Hunstanton Choral Society, and the Heacham Choral Society and the Grimston Choral Class.

He was friends with the conductor and composer Howard Talbot, who subsequently married Arthur's oldest daughter Dorothy Maud.

Memberships
King's Lynn Music Society.