Entries for the tag ‘Rowntree, William Stickney (1848-1939)’
Scarborough draper and its oldest magistrate, founded the Adult School with cousin Joshua Rowntree, four children with Anna Mary Doncaster. 
- 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
Tags are assigned inclusively on the basis of an entry’s original text and any comment. You may find this confusing if you only read an entry excerpt.
Search
Donate
Music & books
The Headingley Gallimaufrians: a choir of the weird and wonderful.
Music from and about Yorkshire by Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder.
RSS feed
Bluesky
Extwitter