Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet (24 February 1866 – 9 December 1921), was a British newspaper magnate and publisher, who founded the Daily Express.

He came into direct competition with the Daily Mail and in the resulting commercial fight almost took control of The Times, being nominated as its manager, but the deal fell through.

[8] During this same period, Pearson was also active as a writer, and wrote a number of tourist guides to locations in Britain and Europe.

Pearson was a strong supporter of Joseph Chamberlain's tariff-reform movement, and organised the Tariff Reform League in 1903, becoming its first chairman.

[9] Beginning to lose his sight due to glaucoma despite a 1908 operation, Pearson was progressively forced from 1910 onwards to relinquish his newspaper interests; the Daily Express eventually passed, in November 1916, under the control of the Canadian–British tycoon Sir Max Aitken, later Lord Beaverbrook.

[11] Its goal, radical for the times, was to provide vocational training rather than charity for invalided servicemen, and thus to enable them to carry out independent and productive lives.

[11] Not only were blinded soldiers trained in work such as basket weaving or massage, but also in social skills such as dancing, braille reading or sports to give them back self-confidence.

[17] He was buried in Hampstead Cemetery after a service to which the Cabinet, the British and Norwegian royal families, and many institutes for the blind all sent official representatives.

[18] In 1922, a biography, The Life of Sir Arthur Pearson, was written by Sidney Dark and published by Hodder & Stoughton.