Entries for the tag ‘Rowntree, Joshua (1844-1915)’
Quaker, social reformer, Liberal MP for Scarborough 1886-92, Scarborough-born son of John Rowntree and Jane Priestman, married Isabella Tindall, father of Maurice L. Rowntree. 
- 26 October 1869: Joshua Rowntree, a young solicitor, joins the party trying to rescue survivors of the wreck of the Ellen south of Scarborough Spa
- 12 March 1900: The South African speaker Samuel Cronwright meets Marion Rowntree among other anti-Boer War activists waiting to run the gauntlet of a riotous Tory mob at Scarborough
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