Children of John and Ann Rowntree

01. John Watson Rowntree, JP

1854-04-03 b. Scarborough, Yorkshire GRO index; censuses; C. Brightwen Rowntree & E. Margaret Sessions (1996) The Rowntrees of Riseborough. York: Sessions
1861 scholar, living at 47 Newbro' St, Scarborough, with his family, his cousin Emily Brightwen, a governess, four grocer assistants, a cook, a nurse maid, and a house maid TNA: RG 9/3619 f44 p32
1865/1868 educated at Oliver's Mount school, Scarborough; one of the first pupils at Thomas Watson's school at Belgrave Crescent, and when it transferred to Oliver's Mount Edgar B. Collinson ed. (1935) Bootham School Register. 2nd edn; Rowntree Family Tree
1869/1870 at Bootham School, York Collinson ed. (1935)
1871 grocer's apprentice, living at West Parade House, Scarborough, with his family, his cousins Mary and Hannah Brightwen, a governess, a cook, a house maid, and a nurse maid RG 10/4816 f46 p85
1881 grocer, partner with father, living at 74 Newborough St, Scarborough, with his family, two grocer's assistants, four grocer's apprentices, a cook, two house maids, and a kitchen maid RG 11/4805 f5 p1
1884-01-24 of 47 Newborough-street, Scarborough; wrote to W.S. Caine, MP, on behalf a fellow Liberal Yorkshire Gazette, 1884-04-12
1885-04-23 of Scarbro'; m. Eliza Stansfield Gravely (1857–1941, b. Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, d. of Frederic and Eliza (Stansfield) Gravely), at Wellingborough fmh GRO index; censuses; Ackworth Old Scholars' Association Annual Report 29, 1910–1911; Yorkshire Gazette, 1885-05-02 Rowntree & Sessions (1996)
Children: Harold (1886–1962, b. Scarborough), Gravely (1888–1903, b. York, and Kathleen (1891–1974, b. Scarborough) GRO index; censuses
1888-11-03 had come second in the municipal election in Scarborough, for East Ward, with 413 votes York Herald
1889-01-22 assistant hon. sec., Scarborough Liberal Association York Herald, 1889-02-23
1889-02-12 of 47 Newborough, Scarborough York Herald, 1889-02-12
by 1889-12-24 a councillor Morning Post, 1889-12-24
1889/1907 a Liberal town councillor Collinson ed. (1935)
  joint secretary of Scarborough Liberal Association for several years
1890-04-01 chaired a Temperance Meeting in the Queen-street Wesleyan Chapel in Scarborough York Herald, 1890-04-03
1891 grocer, employer, living at 47 Newbro' St, Scarborough, with his family, a cook, a housemaid, and a nurse, with ten boarders, half being grocer's assistants, half grocer apprentices RG 12/3966 f75 p9
by 1891-12-19 councillor for East Ward, Scarborough York Herald, 1891-12-19
1892-10-29 grocer; Gladstonian; nominated for East Ward York Herald, 1892-10-29
1892-12-12 no longer a councillor, and removed as a trustee of the municipal charities York Herald, 1892-12-14
1893 of 47 Newboro', Scarborough Kelly's Directory of N & E Ridings of Yorkshire (Pt 1)
1893-10-23 grocer; Liberal; nominated for the Scarborough Town Council York Herald, 1893-10-28
1894-01-08 present at the ordinary monthly meeting of the Scarborough Town Council Yorkshire Evening Press, 1894-01-09
1895-03-05

A sale of work in aid of the funds of the North York Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars was opened at the Bar Church School-room, Scarborough, by Mr. J.W. Rowntree, of Scarborough, yesterday.

Leeds Mercury, 1895-03-06
1896-03-09

WANTED at once, good Plain COOK and HOUSEMAID, for business house.—Apply Mrs. J.W. Rowntree, The Rowans, Scarborough.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
1897/1904 heavily involved in building Marine Drive, and in adult education at St Sepulchre St and Roscoe Rooms Rowntree Family Tree
1898-06-10 chaired a meeting of the Scarborough Council The Salisbury Times, 1898-06-17
1899-10-24 grocer, of 'The Rowans, Westover-road, Scarborough; re-standing for the council, for North-West Ward; allegiance given as 'R' [I'm guessing this is either 'Radical' or 'Ratepayer'] York Herald, 1899-10-28
  member of first education committee of the town council Collinson ed. (1935)
1900-03-13

During the Anglo-Boer War in 1900, Scarborough was the scene of a considerable riot, which was chiefly directed against John Watson Rowntree and his relatives (Edna Lyall mentions the riot in her story 'The Hinderers' in 1900). The immediate cause of the Scarborough riot was the invitation of Samuel Cronwright-Schreiner and John Atkinson Hobson to speak at a public meeting in Scarborough. The local South African Conciliation Committee had organised the meeting on 'The conditions for obtaining a durable peace in South Africa'. During the evening a mob collected, and threw stones and other missiles, but Cronwright-Schreiner and the Rowntrees escaped unnoticed at the back. The mob proceeded up the main street of Scarborough, smashing the plate glass windows of John Rowntree and Son's grocer's shop, William Rowntree and Son's draper's shop (the largest shop in Scarborough), and also the windows of the private residences of Joshua Rowntree, ex-MP for Scarborough, Allan Rowntree, William Stickney Rowntree, and John Watson Rowntree. John Watson Rowntree remained to protect those of his employees who slept at his business premises. His wife, three children, and three maids were at 'The Rowans', absolutely unprotected, but fortunately the mob were contented with the destruction of as much of the furniture as could be reached by missiles thrown through the broken windows. The rioters broke down a wall in order to obtain bricks as missiles. The mob lost the scent of Schreiner, who slept at the house of E.R. Cross, a Scarborough solicitor, and member of the Society of Friends. Schreiner left the house in a cab, and was driven to Ganton Station, thus escaping the hostile crowds gathered at Scarborough Station. It was reported in the town that he had escaped in one of W. Rowntree and Sons' furniture vans.

Edward H. Milligan (2007) Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775–1920. York: Sessions Book Trust; Brian Davey: Thistlethwaite CD
1901 grocer, employer, living at The Rowans, Westover Road, Scarborough, with his family, a hospital nurse, a cook, and a housemaid RG 13/4533 f17 p26
1902-11-05 "Mr. John Watson Rowntree, who offered to become Mayor of Scarborough, but declined to attend Church, withdrew his name" . . . . Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser
1903-01-27

Lecturing in the same building [the Scarborough Liberal Club] on Imperialism, Mr. John Watson Rowntree in the course of his remarks expressed the hope that the ominous clouds hanging over local Liberalism would tend to make the members adhere more closely to the Liberal cause and promote the adoption by their fellow men and women in the town. (Applause.)

London Daily News, 1903-01-28
1904-11-10 among the mourners at the funeral of Maria James, of Burton Latimer Midland Mail, 1904-11-19
1905-04-10 present at the meeting of the Scarborough Town Council Derby Daily Telegraph, 1905-04-11
1906-10-03

Alderman Hastings Fowler, the retiring Mayor of Scarborough, having declined to be re-elected, and the Tories being unable to find another representative of their own party in the Council willing to act as Mayor, they have given the Liberals an opportunity of nominating the chief magistrate. It is expected the Liberals' choice will fall upon Mr. John Watson Rowntree, a leading Quaker and teetotaler, who has long been a prominent worker in the social and political life of Scarborough.

London Daily News
1906-11-10

THE QUAKER MAYOR.

Mr. John Watson Rowntree, the new Mayor of Scarborough, who is a Quaker, affirmed instead of taking the oath. In returning thanks he explained that in not asking them to accompany him to the Parish Church on Sunday as had been the custom with his predecessors, he was not actuated by any objection to attend the service of that church. He believed an act of divine worship was most solemn, and that no outward display or official attendance at church could be in any degree helpful to worship, which, he believed, must be in spirit and in truth.

Morning Post
1906/1907 mayor of Scarborough Old York Scholars' Association (1971) Bootham School Register. London: Oyez Press
1906 visited Brumana, Ras El Metn, Baalbek, Damascus, Jerusalem, Cairo, and (on camels) the pyramids Collinson ed. (1935)
1907/1918 alderman
1907-01-10 Mayor of Scarborough Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 1907-01-11
1908-03-30

VISIT OF MR. J. W. ROWNTREE.

During the week Halifax has received a visit from Mr. John Watson Rowntree, of Scarborough. On Saturday evening he lectured at the King Cross Wesleyan Schoolroom on a tour in Palestine, and this he illustrated with original views he himself had taken. The Rev. George Hack presided, and during the evening Mr. Edgar Spencer rendered the "Hily [sic]City."—On Sunday Mr. Rowntree attended at the Friends' Meeting House and delivered an address on "The Divine Personality." Mr. William Brook presided. There was a capital attendance.

Halifax Daily Guardian
1908 JP Collinson ed. (1935)
  chairman of first old age pensions committee
1909 of The Rowans, Scarborough Brian Davey: Thistlethwaite CD
Fellow, Institute of Grocers Collinson ed. (1935)
from 1909 first treasurer and afterwards president of Scarborough District Nursing Association
  a harbour commissioner Milligan (2007)
1909/1915 clerk of London YM's Yearly Meeting of Elders Collinson ed. (1935)
1910-01-28

THE SCARBOROUGH ELECTION.

ALLEGATIONS BRIBERY REBUTTED.

Following the declaration of the poll at Scarborough on January 15, Alderman J.W. Rowntree made a speech at the Liberal Club, in which he made what was tantamount to a charge of bribery. Correspondence has since taken place between the leaders of the two parties, as a result of which Alderman Rowntree has had to withdraw the allegation in so far as it referred to the Conservative candidate (Mr. George Monckton-Arundell) and the Election Committee. [ . . . chain of letters follows]

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
1911 grocer &c.—shopkeeper, employer, living in 14 rooms at The Rowans, Westover Road, Scarborough, with his family, a cook, and a housemaid RG14PN28945 RG78PN1666 RD527 SD2 ED21 SN138
1911-08-14 Alderman; chairman of the Finance Committee of Scarborough Town Council Northern Echo, 1911-08-15
  grocer and café proprietor, of Scarborough Milligan (2007)
1912-07-28 Alderman; among the welcome party for a group of Germans paying a visit to the Scarborough Adult School Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1912-07-29
1913-12-27 Alderman, of Scarborough; wedding of his son Harold, at Scarborough Friends' Meeting House Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1913-12-29
1914-02-02 Alderman; had resigned as President of the Scarborough Liberal Association Sheffield Daily Telegraph
by 1915-11-18 had contributed £1 to Free Press and Free Speech [apparently a Labour-related fund] Labour Leader, 1915-11-18
1916-11-27 Alderman; present at a meeting of the Scarborough Town Council Finance Committee Grimsby News, 1916-12-01
1917-04-30 Alderman; chairman of the Finance Commmittee Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1917-05-01
1918-11-26

It is probable that before many days have passed a third candidate will be before the Scarborough and Whitby electorate. I learn that a Selection Committee, representing the various Labour organisations in Scarborough, have sent an invitation to Mr. John Watson Rowntree, and it is believed that he will consent to be the Labour candidate. Mr. Rowntree formally severed his connection with the Liberal party some months ago, and has since confirmed the severance by resigning his position as one of the Liberal aldermen on the Scarborough Town Council.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
1918-11-28 of The Rowans, 1, Westover Road, Scarborough; wrote an election address to the paper; had been formally adopted as Labour candidate for Scarborough Whitby Gazette; Leeds Mercury
1918 came third, with 1023 votes Leeds Mercury, 1922-11-17
joined Labour Party, contesting the General Election as the first Labour Candidate for the newly formed constituency of Scarborough and Whitby; lost, and withdrew from politics Collinson ed. (1935); Rowntree Family Tree
1919-05-13

COOK General wanted, family of two; housemaid kept.—Mrs. J.W. Rowntree, The Rowans, 1, Westover Road, Scarborough.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
1920-03-10 of The Rowans, Scarborough; a director of the new Yorkshire Guest House and Conference Centres, Ltd Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1920-03-15
1921-01-08 of The Rowans, Scarborough; letter to the Manchester Guardian quoted at length Weekly Freeman's Journal
1921 grocer, employer, working in Scarborough; patient at Netley House Nursing Home, 15 Henrietta St, London W.1 RG 15/00568 RD7 SD1 ED16 SN23
1923-01-20 JP, of Scarborough; officiated at the funeral of Lady Reckitt, at Hull Hull Daily Mail, 1923-01-22
1924-05-28 of York; had spoken at Yearly Meeting, on the private ownership of land Birmingham Daily Gazette, 1924-05-28
1925-10-03 at the quarterly meeting of the Kent Adult School Union, in Rochester:

Following the business, Mr John Watson Rowntree, an ex-Mayor of Scarborough here he was prominent in adult school work, gave an interesting address, brightly flavoured with humour.

Kent Messenger & Gravesend Telegraph, 1925-10-10
1927-01-08 of Scarborough Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1927-01-08
1929-12-04 chaired a court at Scarborough Leeds Mercury, 1929-12-05
1930-12-12 chaired a meeting at Scarborough, addressed by the chairman of the Independent Labour party Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1930-12-13
1931-11-13 among the magistrates representing Scarborough Bench at the funeral of Alderman Sir Meredith T. Whittaker, in Scarborough Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1913-11-14
1932-09-28 chaired the Scarborough Bench Leeds Mercury, 1932-09-29
1933-04-25 with his wife, present at the funeral of A. Bruce Gravely, at Wellingborough Northampton Mercury, 1933-04-28
  hobbies—at school, collecting butterflies and moths, eggs, and stamps; later—rowing; was connected with the adult school R.C. developing into the Scarborough Amateur Rowing Club for 60 years, 1874/1934 Collinson ed. (1935)
1935-04-20 of 'The Rowans, Westover-road, Scarborough; d. there GRO index; National Probate Calendar; Rowntree Family Tree
had had a seizure the previous week Yorkshire Evening Post, 1935-04-22

MR. JOHN W. ROWNTREE

Notable Scarborough Figure

THREE DAYS FROM HIS GOLDEN WEDDING

The death occurred on Saturday at his home, The Rowans, Westover Road, Scarborough, of Mr. John Watson Rowntree, J.P., at the age of 81.

Son of the late Mr. John Rowntree of Scarborough, he was one of the heads of the well-known Scarborough firm of grocers. He married Miss Eliza Stansfield Gravely, of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and they were to have celebrated their golden wedding to-morrow. Mr Rowntree's death followed a seizure last week.

He took an active part in Scarborough public life, and was Mayor during 1906–7. Before the War he was a staunch Liberal, but afterwards became a Socialist.

In December, 1918, he contested the Scarborough and Whitby Division in the Independent Labour party's interest, when he came out at the bottom of the poll in a three-cornered contest, Sir Gervase Beckett (then the Hon. Gervase Beckett) being returned.

This was the first election after Scarborough had been merged with Whitby.

During the Boer War the windows of Mr. Rowntree's Scarborough shop, cafe and private house, were damaged in the Schreiner Riots, when anti-Boer feeling reach[ed] its climax following an address by Mr. Schreiner, a visitor, in the Cape.

Mr. Rowntree, who was a prominent Quaker, was educated at Bootham School, York, afterwards serving his apprenticeship in the grocery trade at Rowntree's business in York, and then going into the Scarborough business.

He is to be cremated at Hull to-morrow, and memorial services will be held at the Friends' Meeting House, Scarborough, and at the Bar Church, Scarborough, on Wednesday.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1935-04-22
1935-04-24

MR. J.W. ROWNTREE

Memorial Services at Scarborough

Following cremation at Hull on Tuesday, the ashes of Mr. John Watson Rowntree, one of the heads of the well-known Scarborough firm of grocers, were interred yesterday at the New Cemetery, Scarborough.

There were memorial services at the Friends' Meeting House and the Bar Church, and tributes to Mr. Rowntree were paid by Mr. J.S. Rowntree, Mr. Arnold Rowntree, Mr. A.N. Brayshaw, Miss Ellis and Mrs. F. Sturge. Among those present were:—

Mrs. John Watson Rowntree (widow); Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rowntree (son and daughter-in-law); Master Brian R. Fincken (grandson); Mr. W.B. Rowntree; Mr. J.H. Rowntree. Mr. Alan Rowntree; Mr. Malcolm Rowntree; Mr. R.D. Rowntree; Miss Olive Rowntree.

The Mayor of Scarborough (Mr. F.C. Whittaker); Mr. G.K.G. Pindar; Ald. A. Moore; Alderman J. Bielby, Messrs. W.G. Wilkinson, H.T. Kipling, J. Catchpole, J. Jackson, A. Ward, A.J. Tonks, Mrs. Daws, Messrs H. Duthoit, E.H. Dennis, W.R. Drummond, S.D. Brown, W. Hebditch, C.C. Graham, Walter Harland, G.H. Fawcett, J. Carlill Savill, G.F.G. Gardiner, Captain R.E. Andrews; Messrs. A. Holloway, A.A. Nockells, F. Drake, G.T. Dobson, E. Flint, E. Sewell, C.W. Goodall, F.W. Oliver; Miss Stubbs; Miss Mawson; Mr. and Mrs. E.R. Cross.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1935-04-25
1935-08-28 will proved at York by Eliza Stansfield Rowntree, widow, Harold Rowntree, grocer, and Burleigh Wilson Fincken, merchant; effects £14,447 6s. 6d. National Probate Calendar

SCARBOROUGH J.P.'s WILL

Mr J.W. Rowntree Leaves £14,447

Mr John Watson Rowntree, J.P., of The Rowans, Westover-road, Scarborough, grocer and provision merchant, May of Scarborough in 1907–7, and for some 30 years a member of the Town Council, who contested the Scarborough and Whitby Division of Yorkshire in 1918 as a Socialist candidate, and who died on April 20' last, aged 81, left £13,337 6s 6d, with net personalty £12,650 4s 8d. The executors are Mrs Eliza Stansfield Rowntree, widow, of The Rowans, Harold Rowntree, of 43, Westbourne-grove, Scarborough, son, and Burleigh Wilson Fincken, of 197, Great Portland-street, London.

The testator gives £100 to the Scarborough District Nursing Association, a conditional 10s a week or 35s a week as the case may be to Georgina Alexandra Adderson; and the residue to his wife for life, and then as to two-thirds his son and one-third to his daughter, Mrs Fincken.

Hull Daily Mail, 1935-09-14


02. George Rowntree, JP

1855-12-20 b. Scarborough, Yorkshire GRO index; censuses; C. Brightwen Rowntree & E. Margaret Sessions (1996) The Rowntrees of Riseborough. York: Sessions
1861 scholar, living at 47 Newbro' St, Scarborough, with his family, his cousin Emily Brightwen, a governess, four grocer assistants, a cook, a nurse maid, and a house maid TNA: RG 9/3619 f44 p32
1865/1869 educated at Oliver's Mount school, Scarborough Edgar B. Collinson ed. (1935) Bootham School Register. 2nd edn
1869/1871 at Bootham School, York
1871 scholar, of 20 Bootham, York RG 10/4744 f47 p35
1873-06-02 played cricket for past scholars of Oliver's Mount School, against present scholars; bowled out for a duck Scarborough Gazette, 1873-06-05
  entered his father's grocery business, John Rowntree & Sons Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1940-03-02; Edward H. Milligan (2007) Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775–1920. York: Sessions Book Trust
1881-02-24 Hon. Secretary of the Scarborough Coffee House Company, Limited Scarborough Gazette
1881 grocer, partner with father, living at 74 Newborough St, Scarborough, with his family, two grocer's assistants, four grocer's apprentices, a cook, two house maids, and a kitchen maid RG 11/4805 f5 p1
1883-04-30 secretary of the Scarborough Coffee House Company; present at its annual meeting at the London Inn Cocoa House Scarborough Gazette, 1883-05-03
1885-06-24 m. Priscilla Gray Wallis (1856–1933, b. Scarborough, third daughter of Francis Wallis), at Scarborough fmh GRO index; censuses; Yorkshire Evening Press, 1985-06-25; Rowntree & Sessions (1996)
1887-22-25 present at a meeting of the Scarborough Charity Organisation Society:

Mr. G. Rowntree suggested the starting of a cocoanut mat manufacturing industry. Such employment would, he calculated, be the least likely to injure the existing local interests. He also thought that the Corporation should be asked to provide work as far as possible during the winter months. (Applause.)

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1887-11-26
1889-03-24 first secretary of the Scarborough and District NSPCC Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1939-03-24
Child: Malcolm (1890–1952), b. Scarborough GRO index; censuses; Rowntree & Sessions (1996)
1890-12-25 among the ladies and gentlemen assisting Scarborough workhouse staff at the inmates' Christmas dinner York Herald, 1890-12-27
1891 grocer, employer, living at 14 Valley Bridge Parade, Scarborough, with his family, his niece Eleanor G. Wallis, a general servant, and a nurse RG 12/3966 f114 p33
1892-03-30 had donated 10s. to the Charity Organisation Society Scarborough Gazette
1893-01-25 of Scarborough; present at a Gladstonian conversazione in the Exhibition Buildings in York, addressed by Sir Edward Grey York Herald, 1893-01-27
1894-10-15 with his wife, among the mourners at the funeral of John Rowntree, at Scarborough Cemetery York Herald, 1894-10-16
1896-02-27 present at the weekly meeting of the Scarborough Board of Guardians Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1896-02-28
1897-01-14 Yorkshire Evening Post
1899-02-23 present at the weekly meeting of the Scarborough Board of Guardians; spoke on stone-breaking Eastern Morning News, 1899-02-24
1899-05-18 chairman of the House Committee of the Scarborough Guardians Yorkshire Evening Post
1900-05-30

On Wednesday as Mr and Mrs George Rowntree, Scarborough, were bicycling down Andsdell Hill, the last named lost control of her machine. She was violently thrown, and miraculously escaped being jerked over the hill side into the mill dam, where two children were drowned only a few days previously.

Hull Daily Mail, 1900-05-31
1901 grocer (shopkeeper), employer, living at Riseborough, Filey Rd, Scarborough, with his wife, his nieces Dorothea and Annie Wallis, a cook, and a housemaid RG 13/4532 f126 p37
1901-04-20 has been added to the Commission of the Peace of the borough of Scarborough; of the new magistrates, the only one not a Conservative Yorkshire Evening Post
1902-02-13

The Scarborough Board of Guardians yesterday decided to purchase a ton of sugar from the present contractor and store it at the workhouse. The chairman the House Committee (Mr. George Rowntree), who himself grocer and provision merchant, explained that it was proposed to order the sugar now in order to avoid being mulcted in extra duty in the event of a further advance in price on the introduction of the Budget. (Laughter.)

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1902-02-14
1903-12-31 at the Scarborough Board of Guardians:

Mr. George Rowntree pointed out that in 21 parishes in the union there were 37 licensed houses, and the extend of pauperism was 18 per 1,000. In Scarborough it was 37 per 1,000; and in two wards of Scarborough, where licensed houses numbered 110, the percentage of pauperism was 64 per 1,000.

Nottingham Evening Post, 1905-01-01
1904-03-28 in the Scarborough Board elections, came fourth out of five in the poll, but was elected, as four seats were available Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1904-03-29
1905-05-18

Taking advantage of the presence of Mr Lowry, Local Government Board Inspector for the district, at Thursday's meeting of the Scarborough Board of Guardians, Mr George Rowntree asked the Inspector whether the providing of meals for under-fed school children by way of loan to the parents carried with it any disqualification for the franchise.

Hull Daily Mail, 1905-05-19
1906-07-30

Charge Against a Scarborough Magistrate.

At Scarborough Police Court, yesterday, Mr. George Rowntree, a justice of the borough, appeared in answer to a summons in which he was charged with having detained the life certificate of one William Smith, a person being duly entitled to a military certificate as security for a debt due to him. Mr. Rowntree appeared on a second summons, charged with having the certificate in his possession. Mr. S. Powell, Pocklington, appeared for the prosecution and Mr. J. Whitfield for the defence. It seemed that Mr. Rowntree merely held the paper as security for money lent. The magistrates held that Mr. Rowntree had acted innocently and dismissed the first summons on payment of costs, the other summons being withdrawn.

Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 1906-07-31
1907-04-19 tied vote for chair of the Board of Guardians:

Mr Rowntree then did what was spoken of by a Filey Guardian as a most graceful act—he withdrew in favour of Mr. Leadley, his senior in membership, who was then declared elected. Mr. Rowntree was appointed Vice-Chairman.

London Daily News, 1907-04-19
1909/1910 president of Scarborough Hospital (elected 1909-02-25) Collinson ed. (1935); Leeds Mercury, 1909-02-26
1910-01-25 present at the Yorkshire QM conference on the Report of the Poor Law Commission, at York fmh:

Mr. George Rowntree, of Scarborough, referred to the absurd difference in regulation in regard to out relief between one union and another, mentioning that in some unions a widow, irrespective of the number of children, was always refused out relief if she enjoyed good health. In another union, where evidently poaching was the unpardonable sin—(laughter)—out relief was never granted if the applicant kept a dog, or had a gun, or a licence for either. (Laughter.) As regarded the proposal of both Reports to transfer the work of administration from the Board of Guardians to County Councils, Mr. Rowntree inquired how they were to obtain the personal knowledge and information which the present guardians brought to bear on the cases?

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1910-01-26
1911 grocer, employer living in 11 rooms at 'Riseborough', Scarborough, with his family, a cook, and a housemaid RG 14/28943 RD527 ED19 SN15
1911-07-01 of Scarborough; present at the Yorkshire Poor Law Conference, at Whitby Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1911-07-03
1912-10-31 vice-chairman of Scarborough Board of Guardians Yorkshire Evening Press
1913 visited China with Fred Rowntree (architect of West China Union University) Collinson ed. (1935)
1913-09-19 vice-chairman of Scarborough Board of Guardians Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 1913-09-20
1914-02-05 at the annual tea and social gathering of the Scarborough Women's Liberal Association, gave an illustrated lecture on his recent visit to China Leeds Mercury, 1914-02-06
1915-02-16 with his wife, among the chief mourners at the funeral of Joshua Rowntree, in Scarborough Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1915-02-13
1917-11-30

PROMINENT SCARBOROUGH TRADESMEN SUMMONED.

THE USE OF BOY SCOUTS BY POLICE.

At Scarborough, yesterday, Mr. George Rowntree, grocer, Westborough Street, and Mr. Edward Wallis, grocer, Newborough Street, were each fined 10s. for offering to sell maize semolina at a price exceeding the maximum fixed by the Food Controller's Order. In each case it was stated that the defendants charge a farthing too much per half a pound—2d. instead of 1¾d.

Mr Rowntree said in the ordinary course of trade his firm seldom sold half-pounds and on the same order only 8d. was charged for flour for which 8½d. could have been charged.

A special constable in each case admitted sending some one else into the shop to purchase the articles, in one instance a Boy Scout.

Mr. Rowntree said articles had been charged according to usage and practice in the town. There was a great difficulty in getting farthings.

[ . . . ]

The magistrates expressed sympathy with both defendants.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1917-12-01
1918-10-30 refused to adjudicate in the case of a single woman committed to prison with hard labour after pleading guilty to two offences under Regulation 40D of the Defence of the Realm Act, on the ground that the two sexes should be treated alike Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1918-10-31
1919-01-15 vice-chairman of the Scarborough Board of Guardians; addressed the quarterly meeting of the Scarborough Council of Social Welfare, on Poor Law administration and reconstruction Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1919-01-16
1920-04-07 chairman of the Scarborough magistrates Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1920-04-08
1921 not found in census  
1921-09-20 appointed one of three vice-presidents at the first annual meeting of the Yorkshire Conference of Assessment Committees Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1921-09-21
shortly before 1921-10-10 presided over 120 delegates representing the Poor Law Unions of the county, at the 35th annual Yorkshire Poor Law Conference at Scarborough Dundee Evening Telegraph, 1921-10-10
1922-02-16 vice-chairman of the Scarborough Board of Guardians Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1922-02-17
1922-10-06 presided at the 36th annual Yorkshire Poor Law Conference, in the Board Room of the Scarborough Board of Guardians Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1922-10-07
1923-06-26

UNSCRUPULOUS TRADING.

At the 33rd annual conference of the Federation of Grocers' Associations at Scarborough to-day, Mr. George Rowntree, in his presidential address, advocated the granting of diplomas of qualification for grocers, in order to secure a high standard of food, and efficient service for the public.

This would be a protection against unscrupulous trading. Rings were made by the gamblers, and not by the traders.

Nottingham Evening Post
1923/1924 president of the Federation of Grocers' Associations of the United Kingdom Collinson ed. (1935)
  JP for borough of Scarborough; alderman of North Riding County Council
1924-05-15 elected chairman of the Scarborough Board of Guardians Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1924-05-16
1924-07-01/-02 president of the 34th annual conference of the Federation of Grocers' Associations of the United Kingdom, at the Cory-hall in Cardiff Western Mail, 1924-06-25
1925-03-24

ROAD THAT LEADS TO PAUPERISM.

Old Age Pensions Reduce Number of Workhouse Inmates.

In an address to members of Scarborough Rotary Club, Mr. George Rowntree, chairman of Scarborough Board of Guardians, said that at least 50 per cent. of paupers were brought to that condition by alcohol directly or indirectly.

There was a constant stream of fresh victims of alcohol, and he urged Rotarians to use what influence they could to stem the terrible and never-ending stream.

He claimed that no Union afforded better accommodation than Scarborough. It was a disgrace to any Union to permit conditions with regard to female vagrants such as were mentioned in the House of Commons, when it was stated that in some Unions these women slept on the floor with a rug; in others that they had only plank beds, and in some placed they had to rest their heads on their shoes.

Referring to the fact that there are fewer inmates of workhouses than formerly, Mr Rowntree attributed it to a great extent to old age pensions, which enabled people of meagre means to avoid seeking relief.

Dundee Evening Telegraph
1926-02-15 present at the opening of the Spring House Hostel, Heckmondwike Leeds Mercury—included in group photo
1927-09-23 presided at the 42nd annual Yorkshire Poor Law Conference, in Scarborough Leeds Mercury, 1927-09-24
1927-12-09 present at the opening of a children's home in Scarborough Leeds Mercury, 1927-12-10—included in group photo
1928 elected to the County Council, of which he soon became an alderman Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1940-03-02
1929/1935 chairman of the Scarborough Board of Guardians Collinson ed. (1935)
1929-06-07 re-elected vice-chairman of the Yorkshire Joint Vagrancy Committee Leeds Mercury, 1929-06-08
1930-10-24 chairman of the newly-formed Yorkshire Casual Poor Assistance Authority Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1930-10-25
  chairman of the Public Assistance Committee of the NRCC; "it was chiefly through his unflagging efforts that children were removed from the Scarborough workhouse to a home on the outskirts of the town. At a time when little attention was given to the welfare of tramps, he visited every casual ward in the North Riding and many in other parts of Yorkshire." Collinson ed. (1935); Milligan (2007)
  Fellow of the Institute of Certificated Grocers Collinson ed. (1935)
  chairman of the Scarborough branch of the York County Savings Bank
1931-11-11

After the observation of the Two Minutes' Silence at the Scarborough Police Court, yesterday, the Chairman of the Bench, Mr. George Rowntree, referred with deep feeling to the loss the town had sustained by the death of Sir Meredith Whittaker.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1931-11-12
1932-02-24 alderman; attended the funeral of Alfred Henry Taylor, at Malton fbg Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1932-02-25
1933-12-16 grocer and provision merchant, of 55 Esplanade-road, Scarborough; co-executor of his wife's will National Probate Calendar
1934-03-14 retired and re-elected as alderman Leeds Mercury, 1934-03-10; Leeds Mercury, 1934-03-15
1935/1936 wrote his Reminiscences  
1936-10-22 had been chairman of the Yorkshire Vagrancy Committee Hull Daily Mail
1939-09-29 grocer retired, living at 55 Esplanade Rd, Scarborough, with a nurse SRN and a domestic servant 1939 England and Wales Register (RG 101)
1940-03-01 of 55 Esplanade Road, Scarborough; d. there, after five years of failing health following an operation GRO index; National Probate Calendar; Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1940-03-02; Milligan (2007)

MR. GEORGE ROWNTREE

Mr George Rowntree died at his Scarborough home, 55, Esplanade Road, yesterday, in his 85th year. The second son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Rowntree, he was educated at Bootham School, York, and afterwards was apprenticed to his father's grocery business, in which he later became a partner.

Among Mr. Rowntree's many public activities, the most noteworthy was his long service in connection with Poor Law administration. He became a member of the local Board of Guardians in 1894, and mainly on account of his interest in this work he accepted nomination at the age of 73, and was elected to the County Council, of which he soon became an alderman. His chief interest lay in the "casual" and in the children, and in the days when few people took any interest in tramps, he did fine work for their welfare.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1940-03-02
1940-03-05T14:30 following cremation, meeting for worship at Scarborough fmh Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1940-03-02
1940-05-14 will proved at York by Malcolm Rowntree, hotel proprietor; effects £3877 10s. 7d. National Probate Calendar

Will of Mr George Rowntree, of Scarborough

Mr George Rowntree, of 55, Esplanade-road, Scarborough, head of John Rowntree and Sons, grocers, a former member of the North Riding County Council, who died on March 1 last, aged 84, left £3,677, with net personalty of £1,423. Probate has been granted to his son, Malcolm Rowntree, hotel proprietor, of Red Lea Hotel, Prince of Wales-terrace, Scarborough.

Hull Daily Mail, 1940-05-30


03. William Henry Rowntree

1857-03-08 b. Scarborough RD GRO index; C. Brightwen Rowntree & E. Margaret Sessions (1996) The Rowntrees of Riseborough. York: Sessions
1858-02-18 d. Scarborough RD GRO index; Scarborough Mercury, 1858-02-27 C. Brightwen Rowntree & E. Margaret Sessions (1996) The Rowntrees of Riseborough. York: Sessions
  bur. Old Friends Meeting House, St Sepulchre St, Scarborough, Yorkshire MI


04. Ellen Rowntree

1858-04-29 b. Scarborough, Yorkshire GRO index; censuses; Mount School admission register; C. Brightwen Rowntree & E. Margaret Sessions (1996) The Rowntrees of Riseborough. York: Sessions
1861 scholar, living at 47 Newbro' St, Scarborough, with her family, her cousin Emily Brightwen, a governess, four grocer assistants, a cook, a nurse maid, and a house maid TNA: RG 9/3619 f44 p32
1871 scholar, living at West Parade House, Scarborough, with her family, her cousins Mary and Hannah Brightwen, a governess, a cook, a house maid, and a nurse maid RG 10/4816 f46 p85
1871-05-15 applied for admission to The Mount School, York Mount School admission register
1871-08/1875-06 of Scarboro'; at The Mount School, York Mount School admission register; H. Winifred Sturge, ed. (n.d. [1932]) A Register of Old Scholars of The Mount School, York 1931–1932. Leominster: The Orphans' Printing Press
1881 living at 74 Newborough St, Scarborough, with her family, two grocer's assistants, four grocer's apprentices, a cook, two house maids, and a kitchen maid RG 11/4805 f5 p1
1884-03-12 m. Alfred Henry Taylor (1858–1932, grocer and café proprietor, b. Malton, Yorkshire, s. of Henry and Elizabeth Priestman (Rowntree) Taylor), at Scarborough fmh GRO index; censuses; York Herald, 1884-03-14; Rowntree & Sessions (1996)
Children: Charles John (1885–1964), Maud (1888–1972), Muriel Rowntree (1890–1890), Dorothy Mary (1893–1967), and Joyce Rowntree (1898–1990), all b. Malton GRO index; censuses; Rowntree & Sessions (1996)
1885-09-080 son b. at Castlegate, Malton Malton Gazette, 1885-09-12
1886-11-30 one of three women managing the tea provided as a treat for the Malton Union Workhouse inmates Malton Messenger, 1886-12-04
1889-08-31

WANTED, GENERAL SERVANT; one used to washing. From the country preferred.—Apply, Mrs J.H. Taylor, East Mount, Malton.

Malton Messenger
1890-06-10 present at a public meeting for women, at the Adult School, Malton, called under the auspices of the Women's Christian Temperance Union Malton Messenger, 1890-06-14
1891 living at The Mount, St Mary's, Malton, Yorkshire, with her husband and daughter Maud, with a mother's help & governess, a cook, and a nurse RG 12/3973 f102 p17
1901 living at The Mount, St Mary's, Malton, with her husband, their two youngest daughters, a mother's help, and a cook RG 13/4540 f100 p29
1911 living in 12 rooms at 7 The Mount, Malton, with her husband, their two youngest daughters, and a general servant RG 14/28993 RD528 ED8 SN239
1915-02-12 of Malton; with her husband, present at the funeral of Joshua Rowntree, in Scarborough Sheffield Independent, 1915-02-13
1921 not found in census  
1932 of St Aubyns, Malton, Yorkshire Sturge, ed. (n.d. [1932])
1935-07-31 of Malton, at the date of the wedding of her daughter Maud, at Cartmel Leeds Mercury, 1935-08-01
1939-09-29 incapacitated, living at St Aubyns, Horsemarket Road, Malton, with her youngest daughter, a companion-housekeeper, and a domestic servant 1939 England and Wales Register (RG 101)
1953-05-06 of Sedgeley, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire; d. Ulverston RD GRO index; National Probate Calendar
  bur. Grange-over-Sands MI
1953-08-22 will proved at York by Charles John Taylor, company director, and Maud Soulby, widow; effects £1040 2s. 7d. National Probate Calendar


05. Frederick Rowntree, FRIBA (Fred)

1860-04-19 b. Scarborough, Yorkshire GRO index; censuses; C. Brightwen Rowntree & E. Margaret Sessions (1996) The Rowntrees of Riseborough. York: Sessions
1861 living at 47 Newbro' St, Scarborough, with his family, his cousin Emily Brightwen, a governess, four grocer assistants, a cook, a nurse maid, and a house maid TNA: RG 9/3619 f44 p32
1871 scholar, living at West Parade House, Scarborough, with his family, his cousins Mary and Hannah Brightwen, a governess, a cook, a house maid, and a nurse maid RG 10/4816 f46 p85
1871/1876 educated at Bootham School, York; 1st XI cricket and football Edgar B. Collinson ed. (1935) Bootham School Register. 2nd edn; Old York Scholars' Association (1971) Bootham School Register. London: Oyez Press
1876/1880 articled to Charles Augustus Bury of Scarborough Dictionary of Scottish Architects
1880/1885 assistant to Edward Burgess in London and a clerk of works in Leicestershire
1881 architect, one of three lodgers with Sarah King, lodging house keeper, at 21 Mornington Road, St Pancras, London RG 11/176 f91 p6
1883-07-23 architect of the Sandside Coffee House, Scarborough Yorkshire Gazette, 1883-07-28
1885 taken into partnership by Charles Edeson of Scarborough, the practice title becoming Edeson & Rowntree Dictionary of Scottish Architects
1886-10-06 m. Mary Anna Gray (1862–1933, b. Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland, d. William and Margaret Sarah (Pace) Gray), at North Portland Street fmh, Glasgow GRO index; censuses; Yorkshire Gazette, 1886-10-09; Rowntree & Sessions (1996); Dictionary of Scottish Architects
1887 designed new senior class room at Bootham Collinson ed. (1935)
Children: Douglas Woodville (1888–1966), b. Brompton, near Scarborough; Colin (1891–1965), and Judith Mary (1893–1989), both b. Glasgow GRO index; censuses; Rowntree & Sessions (1996)
1889-10-23 among the chief mourners at the funeral of John Rowntree Ellis, at Scalby Scarborough Evening News, 1889-10-24
1890 moved office to London, and entered into partnership with Malcolm Stark in Glasgow Dictionary of Scottish Architects
1891 architect, living at 9 Queen Sq., Kinning Park, Glasgow Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland, with his family, a cook, and a nurse 1891 Scotland census
designed gymnasium, Mount School Collinson ed. (1935)
1891-12-18 re the competition for designing the proposed museum, art gallery, and school of music, in Glasgow:

The design of Messrs. Malcolm Stark and Frederick Rowntree is Classic in treatment, a feature being the central hall, which dominates the group of buildings from every point.

Building News
1892-10-18 had tendered, unsuccessfully, for the Ripon Mechanics' Institute Ripon Observer, 1892-10-20
1895 architect, resident and proprietor of 9 Queen's Square, Glasgow electoral register
1899/1902 joint architect with W.H. Thorp in reconstruction of Bootham school buildings after the fire Collinson ed. (1935)
1900 partnership of Stark & Rowntree was dissolved as a long succession of near misses in national competitions, together with health problems, had resulted in Stark descending into alcoholism; they had only narrowly missed winning the commission for Belfast City Hall, but the Govan District Asylum had remained their only significant win; Rowntree relocated his practice in Hammersmith Dictionary of Scottish Architects
1901 architect, employer, living at 23 Palace Mansions, Fulham, London, with his family and a general servant RG 13/63 f141 p22
1901-10-25 of Westminster; architect of the new property at Pilmuir, Avenue Road, Torquay Torquay Times, and South Devon Advertiser
1902-05-29 of the Cocoa Works, York Ripon Observer
1903 designed Mount School east wing Collinson ed. (1935)
1906-10-05 architect of the new London offices of the Scottish Life Assurance Company (Limited), at the west end of Cheapside Morning Post, 1906-10-06
1907-11-22 architect of the Heath-street Meeting House, Hampstead Hampstead News, 1907-11-28
1908-10-17 had recently visited Letchworth Letchworth Citizen
1909-04-02 of London; architect of the Hucknall Swimming Baths Hucknall Morning Star and Advertiser
1910 of 11 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith electoral register
architect, of 10 & 11 Hammersmith terrace, Hammersmith Hammersmith and Shepherds Bush Directory
1911 designed Mount School west wing Collinson ed. (1935)
architect, employer, at home, living in 9 rooms at 11 Hammersmith Terrace, London W., with his family and a general servant RG14PN237 RG78PN8 RD3 SD2 ED11 SN14
  designed additions to Leighton Park, Sidcot, Ackworth and Saffron Walden schools; designed many Friends' meeting houses; one of the original pioneers of Jordans village, for which he designed the street layout Collinson ed. (1935); Jordans Village
1912 spent six months in China, where he designed West China University at Chengtu Collinson ed. (1935); Dictionary of Scottish Architects
1913-12-04 wedding of his daughter Judith May, at Jordans Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette, 1913-12-06
1914-02-14 of Messrs F. Rowntree & Son, of London, W.; architect of the new Presbyterian Church at Northwood Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette
1914/1918 during Great War worked with FWVRC principally in connection with building of huts for refugees in Holland; joined forces with Charles Spooner and Arthur Joseph Penty to form an enterprise employing Belgian refugees in the prefabrication of buildings for re-erection in Belgium after the war Collinson ed. (1935); Dictionary of Scottish Architects
1919-11-25 "Mr. Frederick Rowntree has started a new Quaker settlement at Jordans, a village near the Chalfonts." Daily Mirror
1921 not found in census  
1922-01-31 on the platform at the Queen's Hall, London, for a talk by Dr Nansen on the Russian famine Westminster Gazette, 1922-02-01
1922-10-19 architect, of 11 Hammersmith Tce, London W.6; departed Southampton for New York aboard the White Star Majestic passenger lists leaving UK; New York City passenger lists
before 1927 architect, of 11 Hammersmith Terrace, London W. Collinson ed. (1935)
1927-01-07 of 11 Hammersmith-terrace, Middlesex; d. at West London Hospital, Middlesex, after an operation GRO index; National Probate Calendar

DEATH OF WELL-KNOWN ARCHITECT.

The death occurred yesterday in a West London Hospital, following an operation, of Mr. Fred Rowntree, a well-known architect, at the age of 66 years. He was the third son of the late Mr. John Rowntree, of Scarborough, and brother of Mr. George Rowntree, J.P., and Mr. John Watson Rowntree, of Scarborough. He was educated at Bootham School, York, and after leaving there entered the profession of architect with Messrs. Stewart and Berry of Scarborough. Later he went into partnership with Mr. C. Edeson, afterwards moving to Glasgow. Some years ago he went to London. He carried out a good deal of work in Scarborough. He is survived by a widow and a daughter and two sons who were partners with him in the business, one of them being in charge of a branch office at York.

Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1927-01-08
1927-01-11

DEATH OF MR. F. ROWNTREE

A FOUNDER OF HAMPSHIRE HOUSE CLUB.

We regret to record the death, which occurred on Friday, of Mr. Fred Rowntree, F.R.I.B.A., of Hammersmith Terrace. The late Mr. Rowntree, who was 66 years of age, was a well-known member of the Society of Friends. He achieved some eminence as an architect, and was responsible for the erection of important buildings in the City of London. He was appointed architect for a university in the heart of China, and was concerned also with designs for country houses throughout England. He was one of the founders, together with the late Mr. Warwick Draper and Mr. Douglas Pepler, of the Hampshire House Club, which is still doing a good work and is the home of the Hammersmith Photographic Society.

The late Mr. Rowntree had resided in Hammersmith for about 21 years. He spent a useful and very busy life, and his career was adorned by continual benevolences. Of him it might be truly said: "He filled his niche and accomplished his task, and left the world better than he found it."

In addition to the widow, two sons and a daughter are left to mourn their irreparable loss.

The funeral took place on Tuesday at Jordan's burial ground, Bucks, a number of prominent members of the Society of Friends, with whom the deceased had been associated in various works in connection with the Society, attending with the family mourners to pay a last tribute of respect

West London Observer, 1927-01-14
1927-05-28 will proved at London by Douglas Woodville Rowntree and Colin Rowntree, architects; effects £4076 9s. 10d. National Probate Calendar
 

Well-known Architect's Estate.

Mr. Frederick Rowntree, F.R.I.B.A., of Hammersmith Terrace, London, formerly of Scarborough and of Glasgow, who had designed most of the buildings erected by the Society of Friends during the last 30 years, and who took a prominent part during the war in relief work in Belgium, Russia, and Poland, died on January 7th last, aged 65 years, leaving £4,076, with net personalty £2,587.

Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1927-06-06


06. Arthur Rowntree, BA

1861-10-19 b. Scarborough, Yorkshire GRO index; censuses; New York passenger lists; C. Brightwen Rowntree & E. Margaret Sessions (1996) The Rowntrees of Riseborough. York: Sessions
1871 scholar, living at West Parade House, Scarborough, with his family, his cousins Mary and Hannah Brightwen, a governess, a cook, a house maid, and a nurse maid TNA: RG 10/4816 f46 p85
1872/1878 educated at Bootham School, York Old York Scholars' Association (1971) Bootham School Register. London: Oyez Press
1878/1879 at Flounders Institute, Ackworth Edgar B. Collinson ed. (1935) Bootham School Register. 2nd edn
1879-06 of Friends' School, York, and Flounders College; passed the Examination for Matriculation Honours Division Pall Mall Gazette, 1879-07-25
1879/1882 junior master at Bootham OYSA (1971)
1881-03-04 had accepted an invitation to the Sheriff's Conversazione, at the Great Assembly Rooms, York Yorkshire Gazette, 1881-03-05
1881 assistant master (school) B.A., of Friends' Boys School, 20 Bootham, York RG 11/4717 f54 p47
1882/1884 at University College, London Collinson ed. (1935); OYSA (1971)
1884 BA (Lond.)
1884/1885 assistant master at Bootham
1885/1888 asst master at Oliver's Mount School, Scarborough
1888/1889 at Heidelberg University, Germany
1889-07-11 at the Scarborough branch meeting of the Teachers' Guild of Great Britain and Ireland, at the rooms of the YMCA:

Mr. Arthur Rowntree followed with an account of his visits to German schools at Heidelberg during his stay as a student at that University. These visits had been organised in a systematic way so as to furnish a good view of the course of study and the aims of German state-education.

Scarborough Gazette, 1889-07-18
1889/1891 private tutor, near Sheffield Collinson ed. (1935)
1891 private tutor, employed, lodger in the household of George Henry Hall, coachman, of Park Head Cottage, Park Head, Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire RG 12/3812 f9 p11
1891-10-29 of 41 Bootham, York; m. Ellen Hurndall (1859–1950, b. Worcester, Worcestershire, d. of William Flavell and Emily Hurndall), at the church of the Redeemer, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire GRO index; censuses; York Herald, 1891-10-31; Rowntree & Sessions (1996)
1892-05-06 with his wife, attended the centennial celebration of the York Retreat York Herald, 1892-05-07
Children: Joan Hurndall (1895 – after 1932) and Alysoun Hurndall (1896–1980), both b. York GRO index; H. Winifred Sturge, ed. (n.d. [1932]) A Register of Old Scholars of The Mount School, York 1931–1932. Leominster: The Orphans' Printing Press
1892/1899 assistant master at Bootham OYSA (1971)
1893-02-10 present at an 'At Home' given by the Sheriff at the Assembly Rooms, York Yorkshire Gazette, 1893-02-11
1896-03-13

FREE POPULAR LECTURES.—The third of a series of free popular lectures, which are being given during the present session in the Friends' Meeting House, Kirkgate, was given on the 13th inst., by Mr Arthur Rowntree, B.A., York, the subject being "Historic and Picturesque Rome." Mr John T. Hansell, C.C., J.P., presided. The lecture, which was highly interesting, was illustrated with lime-light views exhibited by Councillor R.T. Tennant.

Yorkshire Gazette, 1896-03-21
1899/1927 headmaster, Bootham School Collinson ed. (1935); OYSA (1971); Teachers' Registration Council registers
1890s Clerk of York Monthly Meeting and Clerk of Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting Collinson ed. (1935)
1899-04-23 of York; among the speakers at a special Cromwellian service in BarChurch, Scarborough Nonconformist, 1899-04-27
1900-01-11 present at the annual conference of the Friends' Guild of Teachers, at York Yorkshire Herald and the York Herald, 1900-01-12
1901 schoolmaster, employer and worker (the school being under a board), living at 49 Bootham, York, with his family, a cook, and a nurse RG 13/4437 f5 p2
1901-12-28 among the speakers at a Peace meeting in the Friends' Meeting House, York Yorkshire Gazette
1903-12-15 attended Monkstown Meeting in the evening Dublin MM minutes
1903-12-16 had recently visited Dublin as part of a Peace Deputation from London Yearly Meeting Dublin MM minutes
1904-01-05/-06 among the speakers at the ninth annual conference of the Friends' Guild of Teachers, at Saffron Walden Chelmsford Chronicle, 1904-01-08
1905-09-18 headmaster of Bootham School Brighouse News, 1905-09-22
1906-08-06 at the meeting of the British Association in York:

Mr. Arthur Rowntree pleaded for individuality in leisure hours, and said it would be an inestimable advantage if some University entrance scholarships were granted as school-leaving scholarships, so that a premium might be placed on the all-roundness engendered by leisure-hour pursuits.

Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1906-08-07
1907-11-17

Mr. Arthur Rowntree, of York, who spoke on "The inward light and the outward life," was last night the preacher to a large congregation at the Manchester Friends' Meeting House.

Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1907-11-18
shortly before 1909-12-13

INTERESTING EXPERIMENT BY A HEADMASTER.

Ten years ago Mr. Arthur Rowntree was appointed headmaster of Bootham School, York, and in sending a letter of greeting a few days ago to the boys who have passed through the school during that time, he asked them to answer certain questions framed to throw light on the success or otherwise of the methods and management of the school. "What was useful in your school career, what was useless?" asks Mr. Rowntree, and he gives definition to his inquiry by questions on the following points:

  1. Your business or profession.

  2. The work you are doing as a citizen.

  3. The work you are doing for your Church.

  4. The valuable things you learned at school.

  5. The worthless things you learned at school.

  6. The part the school played (or failed to play) in making you physically fit.

  7. Suggestions for reform at Bootham.

Such an experiment covers too small a field to make its results a safe basis for drawing general conclusions, but there is no reason why it should not be widely copied. If this were done information of considerable practical value to educationalists would be obtained.

London Daily News, 1909-12-13
1908-06-13 headmaster, Bootham School; Certificate of Distinction in the Theory, History, and Practice of Education, Cantab. American Register
1909-01-29

AGAINST MILITARISM.

Under the auspices of the West of Scotland Pella) and Arbitration Society, Mr. Arthur Rowntree, B.A.. York, the well-known writer upon social topics, lectured in Glasgow last night on "Education and International Friendship."

While physical drill, he said, in schools ought to be more educational, he pointed out that military drill was opposed to educational methods. The introduction of the military propaganda into schools tended to lower the educational ideals and to imperil educational efficiency. Patriotism should be developed in the schools, but it must have a broad meaning, and not be narrowed down to one particular issue. For the aim of education was spiritual uplifting.

Dealing with the wider aspect of the education of all citizens, Mr. Rowntree said they wanted to urge extension of the reign of law from individuals to nations, and this would be helped if they could abolish the right of private capture at sea. The laws of political economy were all in favour of the extension of the reign of law.

Daily Record, 1909-01-30
1910-07-27

Mr. Arthur Rowntree (head master of Bootham School, York) commenced a series of lectures on the Wars of the Roses last evening, with an interesting sketch of the condition of England in the days of the Kingmaker [ . . . ]

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1910-07-28
1910-11-30/-12-01 exchange of correspondence in the Yorkshire Post, re the referendum Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1910-12-01
1911 schoolmaster (head), employed by Bootham School Committee, living with his wife and daughter at 43 Bootham, York RG14PN28416 RG78PN1626 RD517 SD2 ED33 SN14
1911-06-13 read a paper on 'Internationalism in Relation to Education', at the seventh National Peace Congress in Edinburgh Aberdeen Journal, 1911-06-10
1912-01-23 present at the opening of an extension of the west wing of The Mount School, York Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1912-01-24
1913 of 49 Bootham, York 1913 Kelly's Directory of N & E Ridings of Yorkshire (Pt 2)
1913-12-04 'occupied the rostrum' at the wedding of his niece, Judith May Rowntree, at Jordans Friends Meeting House Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette, 1913-12-06
1914-02-01 professional address Furze Hill, The Sands, Farnham, Surrey; registered with the Teachers Registration Council; B.A., London; Cambridge Teacher's Certificate Teachers' Registration Council registers
1914-09-22 gave a lecture on 'The Poet Whittier and his Message', at the Swarthmore Settlement in Leeds Leeds Mercury, 1914-09-19
1914-10/1919-02 of Bootham School; joint head of clothing dept, York branch of the F.A.U. British Army, British Red Cross Society Volunteers
1915-02-12 attended the funeral of Joshua Rowntree, at Scarborough Sheffield Independent, 1915-02-13
1916-08-12 gave evidence at the inquest into a drowning in York, at Low Hassness, Buttermere Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1916-08-14
1917-03-31 a fire at Bootham school resulted in the destruction of a dormitory Driffield Times, 1917-04-07
1918-05-11 headmaster, Bootham School; sometime Examiner to the Teachers' Training Syndicate of the University of Cambridge in School Management and Method Westminster Gazette
1920-02-02 headmaster, Bootham School Sheffield Independent
1921 not found in census  
1921-07-06 wrote to the editor on 'Education and Citizenship' Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1921-07-08
1922-03-17

THE TEST.

The test of a man's education is what he chooses to do when he is not obliged to do anything.—Mr. Arthur Rowntree.

Diss Express
1922-12-07 master, Bootham School; with his wife, departed London for Cape Town, South Africa, aboard the Union Castle's Gloucester Castle passenger lists leaving UK
  headmaster, of Farnham, Surrey OYSA (1971)
1923-03-12 headmaster, of Bootham School, York; arrived Southampton from Cape Town, aboard the Union Castle's Kenilworth Castle UK incoming passenger lists
1924-05-12 presided at the final display, distribution of certificates, and exhibition of handicraft of the Girls' Club connected with York Juvenile Organisation Committee, at York Assembly Rooms Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1924-05-13
1925-05-23 spoke at Yearly Meeting, at Scarborough Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1925-05-25
1926-10-29

Mr. Arthur Rowntree is to retire next July from the headmastership of Bootham School, the famous educational institution of the Society of Friends at York. He is 65, and has held the appointment since 1899.

Diss Express
1927-07-28 "Mr. Arthur Rowntree, headmaster of Bootham School, the famous educational establishment of the Society of Friends at York, has retired after 28 years' service." Western Mail
1928-01-20 headmaster, retired, of 11 Dulverton Mansions, Grays Inn Rd, W.C.1; with his wife, embarked at London on the American Merchant Lines SS American Trader; 5'10", light complexion, brown hair, blue eyes UK outward passenger lists; New York passenger lists
1928-02-02 arrived New York, en route to Philadelphia
1928-03-26 attended Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes of Philadelphia YM
1928 Fellow of Univ. Coll., Lond. Collinson ed. (1935)
  for several years examiner to the Teachers' Training Syndicate of the Univ. of Cambridge in School Management and Method; played association football for Yorkshire in three matches; chairman of the Juvenile Organisations' Committee, York; foundation manager of New Earswick School; representative of the Surrey County Council on the Committee of Managers of Seale and Sands Schools (C. of E.); as president of the Friends' Historical Society, gave address on Quakerism on Moor and Wold; various essays on education, history, literature and religion; travelled in Egypt, South Africa, USA, and Canada, and most of the countries of Western Europe; hobbies—trout-fishing, golf, reading, writing
1929-04-12 of Bootham School; with his wife, arrived Plymouth from Cape Town, aboard the Union Castle Llanstephan Castle UK incoming passenger lists
1929/1930 of Furze Hill; tel. Runfold 47 phone books
president of the Old York Scholars' Association OYSA (1971)
1930-06-27 spoke at the Old Scarborians' re-union dinner, at the Grand Hotel Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1930-06-28
1931 editor of History of Scarborough Sheffield Independent, 1931-02-09; Morecambe Guardian, 1935-05-24; Collinson ed. (1935)
1932-04-30 gave a lecture on the history of Scarborough, to the Midland and Northern branches of the National Library Association, at Scarborough Leeds Mercury, 1932-05-02
1933-04-07 with his wife, present at the wedding of Christopher Rowntree, at Jordans fmh, Buckinghamshire Leeds Mercury, 1932-04-08
1932/1938 of Furze Hill; tel. Runfold 47 phone books
1933 wrote a pamphlet to mark the centenary of the Friends' Provident Institution Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1933-07-25
1934-07-18 present at the opening of a memorial to Dr Bedford Pierce, at the Retreat, York Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1934-07-19
1935-05-24 had edited and partly written Scarborough, Bridlington, Whitby, and Ryedale Morecambe Guardian
1938-07-03

Quaker Leader Speaks

Mr. Arthur Rowntree, formerly headmaster at the Friends' School, York, gave a stimulating and helpful address on "The Bible England," at a well-attended gathering in the Friends' Meeting House last Sunday evening. The speaker outlined the contributions made by the able translators. Wycliffe, Tyndale, Coverdale and others and expressed warm appreciation of the new work, "The Bible as Literature."

Hampshire Advertiser, 1938-07-09
1938/1946 member of the Schools Committee OYSA (1971)
1939-02-04 with his wife, present at the funeral of Maryden Bashall, at Seale, Surrey Surrey Advertiser, 1939-02-11
1939-09-29 headmaster retired, living with his wife at Furze Hill, Guildford, Surrey 1939 England and Wales Register (RG 101)
1941 of Furze Hill; tel. Runfold 47 phone book
1943-08-10 present at the memorial service for Donald Gray, in London Birmingham Daily Gazette, 1943-08-11
1946 of Furze Hill; tel. Runfold 247 phone book
author of Whittier. Crusader and Prophet The Scotsman, 1946-11-07

Mr. Rowntree has performed a timely service in rescuing this sweet singer and valiant warrior from oblivion and presenting so understanding a study of the man as well as the poet.

Huddersfield and Holmfirth Examiner, 1947-01-18
1948-10-12 gave a lecture on 'Children of the Soil, in Life and Literature', at St Thomas's Parish Hall, Southborough Kent & Sussex Courier, 1948-10-15
1949-05-11 of 26 Park-road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells; d. Southborough GRO index; National Probate Calendar; Kent & Sussex Courier, 1949-05-20
1949-05-13

OBITUARY

Mr. Arthur Rowntree

Mr. Arthur Rowntree, who has died at his home at Southborough, near Tunbridge Wells, was head master of Bootham School, York, from 1899 to 1927. He had previously been both boy and assistant master at Bootham. Under his leadership the school grew greatly. Amongst his "old boys" are number the present Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, Philip J. Noel-Baker; Professor G.N. Clark, of Oxford, and the late Ernest Procter, the artist.

Arthur Rowntree was born at Scarborough on October 19, 1861, son of John and Ann Rowntree. He took his degree at University College, London, of which he was made a Fellow in 1928. He also spent two years at Heidelberg University. For many years he was an examiner to the Cambridge Teachers' Syndicate.

Appearing often a little aloof, he nevertheless could show real feeling and friendship. He was a keen footballer, and three times he played Association for Yorkshire. Cricket, and then trout fishing, gold, and reading were later recreations. He and his wife celebrated their golden wedding in 1941. Arthur Rowntree filled many offices in the Society of Friends, including that of president of the Friends' Historical Society in 1932. He wrote a number of pamphlets on education, a "History of Scarborough" (1931), and "Whittier, Crusader and Prophet" (1943).

The Guardian, 1946-11-07
funeral at Charing Crematorium Kent & Sussex Courier, 1949-05-20

Ex-headmaster's ashes

The ashes of Mr. Arthur Rowntree, who was associated with Bootham School, York, as pupil, assistant master, and finally for 28 years headmaster, are to be taken to York and scattered in the grounds of the school. He died at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, last week, at the age of 88.

Bradford Observer, 1949-05-16
1949-08-18 will proved at London by Alysoun Hurndall Stockton (wife of Edward Latham Stockton), Douglas Woodville Rowntree, architect, and Ronald Brodie Gillett, banker; effects £15,519 18s. 7d. National Probate Calendar


07. Emily Rowntree (Em)

1863-04-28 b. Scarborough, Yorkshire GRO index; censuses; 1939 England and Wales Register (TNA: RG 101); Mount School admission register; C. Brightwen Rowntree & E. Margaret Sessions (1996) The Rowntrees of Riseborough. York: Sessions
1871 scholar, living at West Parade House, Scarborough, with her family, her cousins Mary and Hannah Brightwen, a governess, a cook, a house maid, and a nurse maid RG 10/4816 f46 p85
1875-10-15 applied for admission to The Mount School, York Mount School admission register
1876-08/1880-06 of Scarboro'; at The Mount School, York Mount School admission register; H. Winifred Sturge, ed. (n.d. [1932]) A Register of Old Scholars of The Mount School, York 1931–1932. Leominster: The Orphans' Printing Press
1880-06 passed the university extension course in physiography, in the second class Yorkshire Gazette, 1880-06-19
1881 living at 74 Newborough St, Scarborough, with her family, two grocer's assistants, four grocer's apprentices, a cook, two house maids, and a kitchen maid RG 11/4805 f5 p1
1886 a bridesmaid at Fred Rowntree and Mary Anna Gray's wedding Richenda George: Aunt Em
1889-10-05 hon. sec. Scarboro' Girls' Club; letter in The Women's Gazette, re the Slojd system of basketwork &c. The Women's Gazette & Weekly News, 1889-10-05
1891 of Valley Road, Scarborough, living with her parents, her nephew Charles J. Taylor, her first cousin once removed Frances B. Webster, a cook, and a housemaid RG 12/3966 f115 p36
1891 summer holidayed in Normandy with other family members Aunt Em
  diploma, Glasgow School of Cookery Sturge, ed. (n.d. [1932])
1897-07-01

YORK.—62, Bootham

Private Boarding-house.

Private Rooms if required.

Miss Hollis, Miss Emily Rowntree.

London Evening Standard
1901 superintendent in confectionary works, works, living at 62 Bootham, York, partner to Hannah Hollis, boarding house keeper, with a cook, a housemaid, and a kitchen maid RG 13/4436 f8 p7
  head of department in factory (cocoa works) Sturge, ed. (n.d. [1932])
  worked as a welfare officer at the Rowntree works and was given a set of Jane Austen novels as a leaving present Aunt Em
1911 boarding house keeper, joint head with Hannah Hollis, living in 18 rooms at 37 St Mary's, York, with a parlour-maid, a cook, a house maid, and a kitchen-maid, with two boarders and a visitor RG 14/28411 RD517 ED28 SN
1921 not found in census  
1925-02-11 had been left an annuity of £100 under the will of John Albert Bright, eldest son of John Bright Rochdale Observer
by 1926 of Wadhurst, Sussex  
1928/1929 of Manor cott, Sparrows gn; tel. Wadhurst 116 phone books
1931/1933
1931-02-06 chairman, Wadhurst Nursing Association; letter in the Kent & Sussex Courier Kent & Sussex Courier
1932 of Manor Cottage, Sparrow Green, Wadhurst, Sussex; works on Church Council and Nursing Assoc. Cttee Sturge, ed. (n.d. [1932])
1934-01-04 had given £3 3s. for the Tunbridge Wells and Counties General Hospital New Joint Hospital Building Fund Kent & Sussex Courier, 1934-01-05
1935/1938 of Manor cott, Sparrows gn; tel. Wadhurst 116 phone books
1939-09-29 private means, of Carnleigh, Sparrows Green, Uckfield, Sussex; living with three others, of whom a widowed Caroline Whitten is listed first; the latter, and one other woman have unpaid domestic duties, while the fourth has paid domestic duties, so was presumably servant to the household 1939 England and Wales Register
1949-04 visited Exmouth with Mrs Carol Whitten, with whom she lived at Tunbridge Wells Aunt Em
1951-09-06 of Beechcroft, 26 Park-road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells; d. there, peacefully GRO index; National Probate Calendar; Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1951-09-07
1951-09-10T14:30 committal at Charing Crematorium following at 10:30 service at St Thomas's Church, Southborough Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1951-09-07
1951-11-01 will proved at London by Douglas Woodville Rowntree, architect, Lilian Mary Oliver (wife of Edward Laurence Oliver), and Caroline Whitten, widow; effects £5087 1s. 4d. National Probate Calendar


Child of John and Elizabeth Rowntree

01. Alfred Rowntree, JP

1869-02-22 b. Scarborough, Yorkshire GRO index; censuses; 1939 England and Wales Register (TNA: RG 101); C. Brightwen Rowntree & E. Margaret Sessions (1996) The Rowntrees of Riseborough. York: Sessions
1871 living at West Parade House, Scarborough, with his family, his cousins Mary and Hannah Brightwen, a governess, a cook, a house maid, and a nurse maid RG 10/4816 f46 p85
  educated at Oliver's Mount Edward H. Milligan (2007) Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775–1920. York: Sessions Book Trust
1880/1885 educated at Bootham School, York; 1st XI cricket; 1st XI football (goalkeeper) Edgar B. Collinson ed. (1935) Bootham School Register. 2nd edn; Old York Scholars' Association (1971) Bootham School Register. London: Oyez Press
1881 scholar, of Friends Boys School, 20 Bootham, St Giles, York, Yorkshire RG 11/4717 f55 p50
  agricultural exams at Edinburgh University Collinson ed. (1935)
1889-12-28 of Newborough, Scarborough; has been elected a member of the Royal Agricultural Society of England Yorkshire Gazette, 1889-12-28
1891-01-11

On Sunday morning, at about half-past six, an officer of the Bath police force observed a magnificent meteor fall in a direction lying over towards Beacon hill. Mr Alfred Rowntree, an Alvechurch gentleman, also observed the phenomenon, for he writes to a Birmingham contemporary:—"I was much surprised this morning (Sunday), at 6.30, to find everything illuminated for a second, and discovered the cause to be a very large meteor falling west-south-west of here, and leaving a long bright tail behind it. I should be much interested in hearing if any of your readers observed it, and if so, at what part of the heavens it commenced, and where it ended, as I was unable to observe the latter—a house intervening."

Bristol Mercury, 1891-01-14
1891 farm assistant, employed, one of two boarders in the household of Frank L. Sugden, farmer, at Newhouse Farm, Alvechurch, Worcestershire RG 12/2347 f48 p9
1892-02-06 of Lea End, Alvechurch, Worcestershire; wrote to the local papers re 'Sir E. Lechmere, M.P., and Dissent' Evesham Journal, 1892-02-13
1893-04-03 had been nominated as a guardian for Kirkby Overblow, Wetherby Union York Herald
1894-06-29 of Kirkby Overblow, near Leeds; at the Royal Show, at Cambridge, won third prize in the cheese category, for three cream cheeses (Victoria), under 2lbs each Cambridge Independent Press
1894-10-11 at the annual British Dairy Show, in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, was "highly commended for en exhibit of cream containing not less than 40 per cent. of fat" York Herald
1895-10-04 of Kirkby Overblow: at the Dairy Show at Islington, received "a very high commendation for cream cheese" Lincolnshire Echo, 1895-10-05
1896-09-05 of Kirkby Overblow; at the Foal Show and Sheep Dog Trials at Otley, won a third prize in the open class for his brown filly Wharfedale & Airedale Observer, 1896-09-12
1898-10-26 at Knaresborough Petty Sessions:

Alfred Rowntree, Kirkby Overblow, farmer, was summoned for an offence under the Fishery Act. The defendant occupies a farm from which the sewage is carried into a stream called Spofforth Park Beck, where it was alleged some trout had been poisoned. Mr. Raworth, for the defence, said the sewage from his house was carried about five hundred yards distant, and there were some settling tanks, that if any sewage did pass into the beck it could only be from a pig-stye, and defendant was not responsible for the fish being killed; and medical evidence was given that nothing passed into the Beck of a poisonous nature. The Bench dismissed the case.

Yorkshire Evening Press, 1898-10-27
1899-11-16 of Kirkby Overblow; m. Marguerite Ethel Willis (1874–1946, b. Carperby, Yorkshire, d. Thomas and Maria (Martin) Willis), at Carperby fmh GRO index; censuses; Yorkshire Gazette, 1899-11-18; Rowntree & Sessions (1996)
Children: Alfred John (1900–1972) and Alaric Willis (1906–1987), both b. Kirkby Overblow, Yorkshire GRO index; censuses; Rowntree & Sessions (1996)
1900-07-18 at the Yorkshire Agricultural Show in Doncaster:

Some very good specimens of cheese were on exhibition, and although there were only three classes the number of entries may be considered very fair. Mr. Rowntree, of Field House, Kirkby Overblow, took first honours in the Stilton-shaped Wensleydales or Cotherstone specimens [ . . . ] Mr. Rowntree has evidently discovered the secret of making cheese to suit the fancy of a judge, for he also took first prize in the flat-shaped specimens.

Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1900-07-19
1901 farmer, employer, of Field House, Kirkby Overblow, living with his mother, a charwoman, a general servant, and a nurse; a groom and his family also living in 2 rooms at Field House RG 13/4057 f34 p11
1901-10-08 of Field House Dairy, Kirkby Overblow; at the Dairy Show in Islington, won first prize for Wensleydale cheeses Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 1901-10-09
1902-06-21 of Kirkby Overblow; present at the annual meeting of the Ripon Division Liberation Association, at Fountains Abbey Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Herald, 1902-06-28
1903-02-14 article on 'Calves and Calf Rearing' published in the Salisbury and Winchester Journal and elsewhere  
1904-03-04 of Kirkby Overblow; present at a large Liberal meeting in the Kursaal, Ripon Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Herald, 1904-03-05
1905-08-09 of Kirkby Overblow, Pannal, won first prize at the Yorkshire Agricultural Show at Hull for Wensleydale or Cotherstone cheeses, made in 1905, Stilton-shaped; and second prize for ditto, flat Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1905-08-10
1906-12-22 of Kirkby Overblow, Pannal; has been appointed a magistrate Leeds Mercury
1907-12-03 at the annual meeting of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, held at York:

A letter was read from Mr. Alfred Rowntree, Field House Dairy, Kirkby Overblow, in which he expressed the wish that the Council would consider the weighing and testing of milk. Very valuable work was being done by the Highland Agricultural Society and others in the South West of Scotland in this matter, and he thought the time had come for similar efforts to be put forward in Yorkshire, where there were many dairy herds, if they were to compete with foreigners successfully. It had been carried out with the greatest benefit in Denmark, and the Scotsman had already been able to increase their average yield of milk in certain districts.

Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1907-12-04
1908-01-15 presided at the inaugural meeting of the Yorkshire Small Holdings and Allotments Association, at Lendal schoolroom, York:

Mr. Alfred Rowntree, who presided, said that the object of the Association was primarily to be the helping of the agricultural labourer to take up land. He thought their first move on the formation of the Association should be to call as many meetings as possible up and down Yorkshire. After this he thought the Association should come in and help and advise those men, and see that they got proper treatment meted out to them by the committees of the county councils. This done, their duty would then be to encourage among these small holders the formation of societies co-operating among themselves.

elected as hon. secretary of the new association

Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1908-01-16
1909-08-11 at the Yorkshire Show:

Mr Alfred Rowntree, of Pannal, takes all three prizes for the Stilton-shaped Wensleydale cheeses, two exhibits from Kirkby Overblow, and one from his Masham dairy. He also takes first and second for the flat Wensleydales [ . . . ]

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
1909 of Kirkby Overblow; introduced factory cheese-making at Masham Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1955-09-30
1910-06-21 of Kirkby Overblow; at the Royal Show, in Liverpool, won first place for Wensleydale cheeses Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1910-06-22
1911-03-11

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.

QUESTION OF LIABILITY.

Mr. Charles Bathurst asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade whether his attention had been called to the loss in transit by Mr. Alfred Rowntree, of Field House Dairy, Kirkby Overblow, Pannal, Yorkshire, of seven quarts of cream, consigned in June last by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company to Southport, owing to the carelessness of the Company's servants; whether he is aware that the Company admitted that the loss was due to some luggage falling violently from a barrow and tipping the cream can over, and that, although the consignment note was in the revised form of owner’s risk contract, throwing upon the Company the onus of proving that the loss was not due to their negligence, the Company disclaimed all liability, and alleged that such disclaimer was endorsed by the Railway Companies' Joint Committee, who decide upon the validity of such claims; and whether, in view of the monopoly enjoyed by railway companies, the admitted inability of milk producers to pay Companies' risk rates for the carriage of milk, and the entire helplessness of consignors to protect themselves against loss under the circumstances above mentioned, he will take steps to prevent the supposed benefit to the consignor of the revised form of consignment note being nullified by the interpretation put upon it by the offending Railway Company or by the Railway Companies' Joint Committee?

Mr. Tennant—I have asked the Railway Company for their observations on this case, which has not previously been brought to my notice, and I will communicate with the hon. member when I receive their reply.

Mr. Peto—l desire to ask the hon. gentleman whether he will consider the desirability of appointing an officer, or some Department, of the Board of Trade to whom small traders could be referred in such cases of arbitrary action on the part of a Railway Company.

Mr. Speaker—The hon. member has his question written out. Will he not put it on the paper?

Salisbury and Winchester Journal
1911 dairy and cheese manufacturer, employer, living in 11 rooms at Field House, Kirkby Overblow, Pannal S.O., Yorkshire, with his wife, their younger son, a nurse housemaid, a dairymaid, and a cook RG14PN25942 RG78PN1501 RD490 SD1 ED2 SN13
of Field House, land and tenement at Kirkby Overblow, Pannal, S.O., Yorkshire electoral register
1912-07-01 of Middleham, Yorkshire; at the Royal Agricultural Show, in Doncaster, won first place for Three Wensleydale or Cotherstone Cheeses (Stilton shape), and first for Three Wensleydale or Cotherstone Cheeses (flat shape) Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1912-07-03
1913-10-20 dairyman, of The Dairy, Middleham, Yorkshire; executor of the will of Eliza Rowntree, of Cotescue near Middleham, Yorkshire, widow National Probate Calendar; Great Western Railway shareholders
1914-08-15 had donated £2 2s. to the National Relief Fund Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough
1916-03-10 had donated 10s. to the Fund for Work Among Refugees in Russia Common Cause
1919-10-22 at the annual show of the British Dairy Farmers' Association, at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, won in the small class of Wensleydale cheese Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
1921 not found in census  
1922-07-21 of Coverham, Middleham; won 2nd prize (£3) for three Wensleydale or Cotherstone Cheeses, made in 1922, at the Yorkshire Agricultural Society Show, on the Anlaby-road, Hull Hull Daily Mail, 1922-07-26
1923-09-26 at the Grocery, Provision, and Allied Trades Exhibition, in the Waverley Market, Edinburgh:

ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL CHEESES.

A fine display of English and Continental cheeses is shown at Stand 19, Avenue A, occupied by Messrs. Alfred Rowntree, Son, & Wright, 12 Westgate Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne. This firm have specialised in the manufacturing of Wensleydale cheeses, which are made in their own dairies at Masham, Coverham, and Thoralby, in the Yorkshire dales. Included in their show of Continental cheeses are Rigi, Swiss, Emmenthal , Gruyere, and petite Gruyere; Italian Gorgonzolas, Parmesan, and Reggiano, and several brands of Roqueforts, including the French Société Roquefort, of which they are direct importers.

The Scotsman, 1923-09-29
1924-09-08 of Coverham, Middleham, Yorkshire; wrote letter to the paper on 'The Milk War' Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1924-09-11
1926-10-23 attended the funeral of the Wensleydale Mansion shooting tragedy, representing the Wensleydale Agricultural Show Society Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1926-10-25
1927-12-07 "Messrs Alfred Rowntree and Son use only English cheese in their crustless varieties" . . . Western Daily Press
1928-04-17 organising secretary for an evening of variety presented by the Arts League of Service Players Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1928-04-18
1929-07-10 of Alfred Rowntree and Son, Middleham; at the Royal Show, in Harrogate, gained 3rd prize for Two Wensleydale Cheeses (Stilton shape) Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
1930-07-31

Mr. Alfred Rowntree, of Cotescue Park, Middleham, sends for identification and comment an example of the great sawfly (Sirex gigas) which had made its appearance in his house.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
1931-04-22

WENSLEYDALE CHEESE

In reference to Mr. Ernest Forbes's recent article on Leyburn Market, Messrs. Alfred Rowntree and Son, cheesemakers and milk and cream contractors, of Coverham, Middleham, Yorkshire, take exception to the special mention of Mr. Dick Mason, the Askrigg dairyman, whose daughter, according to the article, "makes 'baby' cheeses." Messrs. Alfred Rowntree and Son state: "As a matter of fact, we are the original and largest makers of small cheeses in the Dale, and from the prizes we have taken  . . . we rather think we have a right to claim being the most noted."

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
1932-10-21 of Messrs A. Rowntree and Son, Coverham Dairy, Middleham; the dairy had won in the Wensleydale cheese class at the Dairy Show in London Leeds Mercury, 1932-10-21
1933-07-05 of Middleham; at the Royal Show, in Derby, won first place for Two Wensleydale cheeses (Stilton shape) Derby Daily Telegraph, 1933-07-06
1934-10-26

DAMAGE FOR CHEESE MAKERS.

In the King's Bench yesterday, damages of £292 10s. 3d. were awarded Alfred Rowntree and Sons, Limited, cheese manufacturers, of Coverham, North Riding, for breach of contract against Frederick Allen and Sons (Poplar), Limited, chemical manufacturers, of Poplar, London.

Lord Wright held that caustic soda solution supplied by Allen and Sons was too weak and led to cheeses tested by it becoming unmerchantable.

Leeds Mercury, 1932-10-27
1935 dairy farmer and cheese manufacturer, of Leyburn, Yorkshire; JP for West and North Ridings, Yorkshire; chairman of Middleham Parish Council Collinson ed. (1935); OYSA (1971)
1936-11-30 of Alfred Rowntree and Son, cheese makers, of Coverham, Middleham; at that time of the year, turning out approximately a ton of Wensleydale cheese per day Leeds Mercury
1937-09-27 of Middleham; among the mourners at the funeral of Herbert Corder, at Preston Patrick Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette
1938-12-23

"A disgrace to themselves and to the dale in which they lived," was the description applied by the chairman at Leyburn to-day to Robert Alderson Raine and his brother, C.L. Raine, Swineside farmers, found guilty of selling adulterated milk. R.A. Raine was ordered to pay £50 and costs, and C.L. Raine £25 and costs.

Mr. Alfred Rowntree, the chairman, said defendants had pleaded guilty to a very serious offence, and but for the pleas of their advocate both would have been sent to prison.

Yorkshire Evening Post
1939-09-29 dairy manufacturer, staying with his wife at the 'Red Lea' hotel, 1–5 Prince of Wales Terr:, Scarborough 1939 England and Wales Register
1940-08-15 of Leyburn; with his wife, present at the funeral of Charles Edward Webster, at Lawnswood Crematorium Halifax Evening Courier, 1940-08-16
1941-05-09

REQUIRED, Efficient SHORTHAND-TYPIST for country area.—Apply, with recent testimonials, particulars of age, experience, and speeds, to Alfred Rowntree and Sons, Ltd., The Dairy, Coverham, Middleham, Yorkshire.

Western Morning News
1942-12-23 wrote to the Yorkshire Post re dispossessed farmers Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 1942-12-29
1943-10-07

Firm fined on milk charge

Charged with selling milk not up to the required standard Alfred Rowntree and Sons, Ltd, of Coverham, Leyburn, were, at Darlington yesterday, fined £15, with £5 5s costs [ . . . ]

Defending Rowntree and Sons, Ltd., Mr C.A. Hinks said that on the day in question they had sent milk to 27 different customers in the Teesside and South Durham areas, and the only complaint was from Darlington. He suggested that there must have been interference while the milk was in transit.

Newcastle Journal, 1943-10-08
  farmer and creamery proprietor, of Middleham, Wensleydale, Yorkshire Rowntree & Sessions (1996)
1945-09-14 acting Chairman of the Justices, Overdale, Leyburn, Yorkshire Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
1946-06-04 wife of Overdale, Leyburn, Yorkshire, at the date of her death National Probate Calendar
1946-10-08 retired farmer; executor of his wife's will
1947-05-02 when sitting at the police court, described as "looking rather like someone out of Dickens" Yorkshire Evening Post
1950-03-31 of Overdale, Leyburn; letter in the paper on 'Corporal punishment'; "As one who has been chairman of a rural Bench of Magistrates and also of its Juvenile Court and has never ordered a birching" . . . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
1953-10-27 at the London Dairy Show, Messrs Alfred Rowntree and Sons, Leyburn, Yorkshire, won first prize for six cheese, not less than 40lb each, made and exhibited by a recognised cheese factory Cheshire Observer, 1953-10-31
  farmer, creamery owner, of Leyburn, Wensleydale; producer of Wensleydale cheese; a committed Friend, serving as elder, trustee, on the Ackworth School Committee for 56 years, and on the Meeting for Sufferings Milligan (2007)
1954-10-16 of Leyburn Bradford Observer, 1954-10-18
1955-05-29

Mr. Alfred Rowntree

I was misinformed when I referred in a note yesterday to "the late Mr. Alfred Rowntree." I am happy to report that Mr. Rowntree is very much alive. At the age of 86 he still drives a motor car and still has a clean driving record, though he first took that that form of transport in 1910. For four years before that he rode a motor cycle.

Mr. Rowntree, whose home is at Overdale, Leyburn, is the last surviving member of the first Rural Council of Wetherby.

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
1956-06-08 of Field House, Leyburn; d. there GRO index; National Probate Calendar; Bootham
1956-09-21 will proved at York by Alfred John Rowntree, sales manager, and Alaric Willis Rowntree, company director; effects £1631 14s. National Probate Calendar


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