Sir Arthur Philip Du Cros, 1st Baronet[1] (26 January 1871 – 28 October 1955) was a British industrialist and politician.

Arthur was made a joint managing director alongside his father but Harvey du Cros was also chairman.

The amalgamation was intended to bring about a substantial reduction in overhead and clarify what had been seen as a confusing relationship between the two enterprises when they shared most shareholders.

In 1928 Du Cros and his brothers Alfred and George finally resigned as president, vice-president and director of Dunlop though they had been on leave of absence from the board since March 1924.

[2] In 1909 he formed (and was the director of) the Parliamentary Aerial Defence Committee to ensure funding for military aeronautical development, of which he was a strong proponent.

During the First World War he worked for the Ministry of Munitions on an honorary basis, buying two motorised ambulance convoys with his own money and helping form an infantry battalion, being a former captain of the Royal Warwickshires and for some years being the honorary colonel of the 8th battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.

In 1914 Du Cros offered to pay £64,000 (equivalent to £7,760,000 in 2023) worth of Daisy's debts in return for the letters, and for his generosity he was created a baronet in 1916.

On 14 April 1913 Levetleigh, a house at St Leonards-on-Sea, close to Hastings, belonging to the Eversfield Estate, which Du Cros had inhabited until March 1912, was burnt down by suffragettes angry at his opposition to votes for women.

[9] Du Cros married Maude Gooding, the daughter of a Coventry watch manufacturer in 1895, when he was 24 years old.