Joseph Rowntree (philanthropist)i
Born 24 May 1836

The York cocoa maker Joseph Rowntree began New Earswick, a garden village for working families, in 1902 and two years later set up trusts that still exist: the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a social research charity, and the housing trust that runs the village. Unlike many philanthropists of his day,…

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