Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald (19 February 1820 – 19 January 1893) was an

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industrialist and

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politician. He was instrumental in promoting and developing the

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ore fields in

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leading to the establishment of

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as a national iron production center, and a key promoter of the

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Biography

The eldest son of Charles Winn of

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, near

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, he lived in the 1850s in another family property, Appleby Hall near

, 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

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. The

opened in 1866, and Winn also built 193 houses in New Frodingham and enlarged the local school. Later, he financed the building of Scunthorpe Church of England School and St John's Church. He was

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(MP) for

from 1868 to 1885, and served as a

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(

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) in

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's second government, from 1874 to 1880. He was Conservative Party Chief Whip from 1880 to 1885. Here he had to deal with

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as his Forth Party. He was later ennobled as Baron Saint Oswald, of

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in the

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of the

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in 1885, when the Conservatives were returned to power. He returned to live at Nostell Priory when he inherited the house from his father in 1874, but his mother and unmarried sisters continued to live at Appleby. His son Rowland (1857–1919) was MP for

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from 1885 to 1893. His daughter Maud married Lt-General Alan Montagu-Stuart-Wortley. In 1897, Baron and Lady St. Oswald and their daughter Maud were guests at the Duchess of Devonshire's Diamond Jubilee Costume Ball. His daughter Laura married

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, an Irish nobleman.

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* 1820 births Saint Oswald, Rowland Winn, 1st Baron Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs who were granted peerages 1893 deaths Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1820s-stub