Rowntree

Rowntree may refer to:

Companies

• Rowntree's, the confectionery company owned in the 19th & 20th centuries in York by members of the Rowntree family

• • Directors and employees of this company
    • Oliver Sheldon (1894-1951)

• Rowntree trusts
  • Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
  • Joseph Rowntree Foundation

People called Rowntree

• Members of the family that owned the Rowntree's confectionery company and their cousins:
  • John Stephenson Rowntree (1834–1907)
  • Henry Isaac Rowntree (1837 - 1883), founder of the business
  • John Wilhelm Rowntree (1868–1905), chocolate manufacturer and religious activist
  • Joseph Rowntree (Educationist) (1801–1859), educationist
  • Joseph Rowntree (Philanthropist) (1836–1925), cocoa and chocolate manufacturer and philanthropist
  • Joshua Rowntree (1844–1915), social reformer
  • Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree (1871–1954), sociologist and businessman
  • Michael Rowntree (1919-2007), journalist and philanthropist

• other apparently unrelated people called Rowntree:
  • Catriona Rowntree (July 19, 1971 –), presenter for Australian Nine Network's Getaway program
  • Dave Rowntree (May 8, 1964 – ), musician - drummer with the band Blur
  • Joseph Rowntree (Canadian) pioneer of Thistletown, miller on the banks of the Humber River in 1843
  • Mark Rowntree (born c. 1956), British serial killer
  • Graham Rowntree (April 18, 1971 –), English international rugby union footballer

Other things and places called "Rowntree"

• Rowntree Park, a 20-acre (8.1 ha) park in York

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