biography
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| lived:
| (1836–1925)
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| biography:
| Quaker industrialist and reformer, born in York, North Yorkshire, N England, UK, the son of Joseph Rowntree, a Quaker grocer. With his brother, Henry Isaac (d.1883), he became a partner in a cocoa manufacturing firm in York in 1869, and built up welfare organizations for his employees. He founded the Rowntree Foundation, a Quaker charity, which funds a wide range of charities and worthy causes. |
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