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Harvey du Cros
William Harvey du Cros (19 June 1846 – 21 December 1918)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=House of Commons constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2) )〕 was a Dublin-born financier, the founder of the pneumatic tire industry based on the discovery of John Boyd Dunlop a Scots-born Belfast veterinary surgeon. Just 65 inches tall〔Sir Arthur Du Cros, Bt, ''Wheels of Fortune, a salute to pioneers'', Chapman & Hall, London 1938〕 and a noted athlete in his youth, he remained an enthusiastic cyclist and a skilful boxer into his middle age.〔Mr. Harvey Du Cros. ''The Times'', Monday, Dec 23, 1918; pg. 6; Issue 41980〕 He was briefly a Conservative Party politician of England.
==Early career==
Son of Edouard Pierre du Cros who was of French Huguenot descent and Maria Molloy he was educated at The King's Hospital, Dublin. He married Annie Jane Roy in 1866. Advised when aged 30 to take up sport for the sake of his health he became Ireland's: boxing champion at two weights; fencing champion; founder and captain of a team which won the Irish Rugby championship and, having six sons by the time he reached his late-twenties, he formed them into a successful team of racing cyclists, ''The Invincibles'', on solid tyred penny farthing bicycles. He was president of the Irish Cyclists' Association.〔Martin Adeney, ‘Du Cros, (William) Harvey (1846–1918)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004〕
Later in life he was described by the ''Revue Franco-Anglaise'' as dapper, below middle height and of robust build with an expressive face and a high forehead. Quite modest and of a retiring disposition his pleasant open face invited friendship and confidence. He seemed to have a ready willingness to listen.〔as reported in: Sir Arthur Du Cros, Bt, ''Wheels of Fortune, a salute to pioneers'', Chapman & Hall, London 1938〕
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