Harvey du Cros

(William) Harvey du Cros (19 June 1846 – 21 December 1918)^[1] was a Conservative Party politician of England. He was the son of Edouard Pierre du Cros and Maria Molloy and was educated at The King's Hospital, Dublin.

He was elected in the 1906 general election as Member of Parliament for Hastings in East Sussex.^[2] He resigned from the House of Commons two years later because of ill health, by the procedural device of accepting the job of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. The resulting Hastings by-election of 3 March 1908 was won for the Conservatives by du Cros's son Arthur, later Sir Arthur du Cros, 1st Baronet du Cros.

Business

By 1898 du Cros, a director of Dunlop Rubber, also co-owned the Motor Power Company with S. F. Edge, thus they imported the French Clement-Gladiator cars, often known as Gladiators, into the UK.^[3]

References

^ "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Hcommons2.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 120. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
^ Unique cars, Founding fathers - Gustave Clement

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Harvey du Cros

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Freeman Freeman-Thomas	Member of Parliament for Hastings 1906 – 1908	Succeeded by Arthur du Cros

Persondata
Name	Du Cros, Harvey
Alternative names
Short description	British politician
Date of birth	19 June 1846
Place of birth
Date of death	21 December 1918
Place of death