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Rowland Winn (other)
Rowland Winn may refer to: *Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald (19 February 1820 – 19 January 1893) was an English industrialist and Conservative Party politician. He was instrumental in promoting and developing the ironstone ore fields in North Lincolnshire leading to the ... (1820–1893), industrialist, Conservative politician * Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron St Oswald (1857–1919), Conservative MP, son of the above * Rowland Winn, 4th Baron St Oswald, (1916–1984), British soldier and Conservative MP {{hndis, name=Winn, Rowland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald
Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald (19 February 1820 – 19 January 1893) was an English industrialist and Conservative Party politician. He was instrumental in promoting and developing the ironstone ore fields in North Lincolnshire leading to the establishment of Scunthorpe as a national iron production center, and a key promoter of the Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway. Biography The eldest son of Charles Winn of Nostell Priory, near Wakefield, he lived in the 1850s in another family property, Appleby Hall near Scunthorpe, and married Harriet Dumaresque. Aware that the area had produced iron in Roman times, he searched for ironstone on his land, and found it in 1859. He marketed it to iron-makers, leased land for mining, mined his own ore and encouraged the building of iron works. To transport the iron and to bring the coal necessary for the smelting, Winn campaigned for a railway to be built, which required the passage of an Act of Parliament. The Trent, Ancholme and Grimsb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron St Oswald
Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron St Oswald (1 August 1857 – 13 April 1919) was a Conservative Party politician in England. At the 1885 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Pontefract in Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a Historic counties of England, historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other Eng .... He held the seat until his father's death in 1893, when he succeeded to the peerage as Baron St Oswald. He married Mabel Susan Forbes in October 1892. Their eldest son Rowland George Winn became 3rd Baron St Oswald. Notes External links * Saint Oswald, Rowland Winn, 1st Baron Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 Saint Oswald, B2 1857 births 1919 deaths {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1850s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |