Seebohm rowntree short biography
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Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree 1871-1954
Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree (referred to as Seebohm), was born in 1871, second of the four sons of Joseph Rowntree and Antoinette Rowntree. He was educated by governesses at home, at Bootham School, and at Owen’s College, Manchester (where he studied chemistry). At the age of 18 he entered the family cocoa and chocolate business, with which he was associated until retirement in 1941. He immediately put his Manchester experience to good use in 1889, when he established a research and testing laboratory. When the firm became a limited liability company in 1897, Seebohm became a director, taking responsibility that year for the labour department.
Company chairman
By 1941, when Seebohm Rowntree retired from the chairmanship he had held since 1923, the firm ‘had established itself as the second largest chocolate and confectionery firm in the United Kingdom … and the third largest business of its kind in the world’.(1) As chair
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Quakers in the World
Seebohm Rowntree
1871 – 1954
(Benjamin) Seebohm Rowntree was the second son of namn Rowntree and his second wife (Emma) Antoinette née Seebohm. Following tutoring at home he went to Bootham School in York. Later he studied at the University of Manchester, concentrating on chemistry, but did not take a degree. He joined the Rowntree family business in 1889. On Sundays he taught at the York Adult School, work that he continued to do for over twenty years. This helped to man him aware of the deprivation of the poor.
In February 1895 he visited the slums of Newcastle upon tagg på gaffel eller spets in the company of a well informed local man. There he witnessed severe poverty, despite the accumulating national wealth, and decided that as a Quaker it was his responsibility to try to do something about it. He had an aptitude for systematic research and statistics and was influenced by Charles Booth’s social survey of the East En
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Seebohm Rowntree
British philanthropist industrialist and sociologist writer
Seebohm Rowntree | |
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| Born | (1871-07-07)7 July 1871 York, England |
| Died | 7 October 1954(1954-10-07) (aged 83) Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Occupation | Industrialist, sociological researcher and writer |
| Nationality | English |
| Period | 1899–1954 |
Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, CH (7 July 1871 – 7 October 1954) was an English sociological researcher, social reformer and industrialist. He is known in particular for his three studies of poverty in York, conducted in 1899, 1935, and 1951.
The first York study involved a comprehensive survey of the living conditions of the poor in York during which investigators visited every working class household, and his methodology inspired many subsequent researches in British empirical sociology.[1][2]
By strictly defining the concept of poverty in his studies, he was able to reveal that the causes of poverty in Yo