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Rowntree's confectionery company and trusts

Rowntree's Rowntree's is a British confectionery brand and former business based in York, England. Rowntree developed the Kit Kat (introduced in 1935), Aero (introduced in 1935), Fruit Pastilles (introduced in 1881), Smarties (introduced in 1937) brands, ...

, a confectionery company in York, England previously owned by members of the Rowntree family *

Rowntree trusts {{Use British English, date=January 2018 The four Rowntree Trusts are funded from the legacies of the Quaker chocolate entrepreneurs and social reformers Joseph Rowntree and Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree. The trusts are based in the Rowntrees' home ...

Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) is a philanthropic grant making trust that supports work undertaken in the UK and Ireland, and previously South Africa. It is one of three original trusts set up by Joseph Rowntree in 1904. The Trust ...

Joseph Rowntree Foundation The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is a charity that conducts and funds research aimed at solving poverty in the UK. JRF's stated aim is to "inspire action and change that will create a prosperous UK without poverty." Originally called the ...

People

Rowntree's confectionery company family and close relatives

Arnold Stephenson Rowntree Arnold Stephenson Rowntree (28 November 1872 – 21 May 1951) was a Quaker and Liberal MP for York, England. Background He was the son of John Stephenson Rowntree and Elizabeth Hotham of York. He was the nephew of Joseph Rowntree (1836–192 ...

(1872–1951), Liberal MP for York *

Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, CH (7 July 1871 – 7 October 1954) was an English sociological researcher, social reformer and industrialist. He is known in particular for his three York studies of poverty conducted in 1899, 1935, and 1951. The fi ...

(1871–1954), sociologist and businessman, also known as ''Seebohm Rowntree'' *

Henry Isaac Rowntree Henry Isaac Rowntree (1838–1883) was the founder of Rowntree's, one of the United Kingdom's largest confectionery businesses. Career Having served his apprenticeship in his father's shop at The Pavement in York, and following his father's dea ...

(1837–1883), founder of the business *

John Stephenson Rowntree John Stephenson Rowntree (2 May 1834 – 13 April 1907) was a Director of Rowntree's, the York confectionery company and a reformer of the Quaker movement in the United Kingdom. He was the eldest son of Joseph Rowntree (1801 – 1859) an ...

(1834–1907) * John Wilhelm Rowntree (1868–1905), chocolate manufacturer and religious activist *

Joseph Rowntree (educationist) Joseph Rowntree (Senior) (10 June 1801 – 4 November 1859) was an English shopkeeper and educationalist. Rowntree was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, the son of the Quakers John Rowntree (1757–1827) and his wife, Eliza ...

(1801–1859), education leader *

Joseph Rowntree (philanthropist) Joseph Rowntree (24 May 1836 – 24 February 1925) was an English Quaker philanthropist and businessman from York. Rowntree is perhaps best known for being a champion of social reform, partner and friend of Charles Booth, and his time as a choc ...

(1836–1925), cocoa and chocolate manufacturer and philanthropist *

Joshua Rowntree Joshua Rowntree (6 April 1844 – 10 February 1915) was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough in 1886 and served, as a Gladstonian Liberal, until 1892, when he was succeeded by the Conservative, Sir George Reresby Sitwell, whom ...

(1844–1915), social reformer * Michael Rowntree (1919–2007), journalist and philanthropist

Unrelated persons

Catriona Rowntree Catriona Rowntree (born 19 July 1971) is an Australian television presenter. Rowntree is currently a presenter on the Nine Network's '' Getaway'' program. Career Rowntree studied journalism at Macleay College in Sydney, after working as a re ...

(born 1971), Australian television personality * Dave Rowntree (born 1964), British musician *

Fred Rowntree Frederick (Fred) Rowntree (19 April 1860 Scarborough – 7 January 1927 Hammersmith) was an Arts and Crafts architect. Life and career Rowntree was the son of John Rowntree, a master grocer and Ann Webster. His brother, John Rowntree, traded ...

(1860–1927), Scottish architect *

Gil Rowntree Gil H. Rowntree (born January 17, 1934, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadians, Canadian Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse trainer, racehorse trainer and owner. One of the most successful trainers in Canadian Thorou ...

(born 1934), Canadian racehorse trainer and owner *

Graham Rowntree Graham Christopher Rowntree (born 18 April 1971) is an English rugby union former player and current head coach of Irish club Munster. He played loosehead prop for Leicester Tigers and England. He was capped 54 times for England, despite havi ...

(born 1971), English rugby union player *

Joseph Rowntree (Canadian) Thistletown is a culturally diverse neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It consists of the area surrounding the intersection of Albion Road and Islington Avenue in the former City of Etobicoke. (Etobicoke merged with five other municip ...

pioneer of Thistletown, miller on the banks of the Humber River in 1843 *

Kenneth Rowntree Kenneth Rowntree (14 March 1915 – 21 February 1997) was a British artist. Career and life Kenneth Rowntree was born in Scarborough, the son of Howard Doncaster Rowntree (1879-1974). He was educated at Bootham School, York. He studied at th ...

(1915–1997), British artist *

Leonard Rowntree Leonard George Rowntree (1883–1959) was a Canadian physician and medical researcher who was credited with founding the research tradition at the Mayo Clinic. He is most well known for pioneering kidney research including the Rowntree test for ki ...

(1883–1959), Canadian physician and medical researcher *

Leslie Rowntree Henry Leslie Rowntree (June 2, 1914 – May 17, 1975) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1956 to 1971. He represented the riding of York West. He serve ...

(1914–1975), Canadian political figure *

Lester Gertrude Ellen Rowntree Lester Gertrude Ellen Rowntree (1879–1979), a renowned field botanist and horticulturalist, was a pioneer in the study, propagation, and conservation of California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pa ...

(1879–1979), American botanist and horticulturist *

Mark Rowntree Mark Andrew Rowntree (born 1956) is a British serial killer who was committed to a mental hospital after he admitted killing four people at random in the town of Bingley, West Yorkshire, during late 1975 and early 1976. Due to the timing of hi ...

(born c. 1956), British spree killer *

Norman Rowntree Sir Norman Andrew Forster Rowntree (11 March 1912 – 22 July 1991) was a British civil engineer. Rowntree was born in London in 1912 and held a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering... He worked as an engineering consultant for Alcott & L ...

(1912–1991), British civil engineer * Richard Rowntree (1884–1968), English-born New Zealand cricketer

Other uses

* Rowntree Park, a , a park in York, England {{Disambiguation, surname