Seebohm rowntree biography
Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree (referred to as Seebohm), was born in , second of the four sons of Joseph Rowntree and Antoinette Rowntree.
Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, CH (7 July – 7 October ) was an English sociological researcher, social reformer and industrialist.!
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Rowntree, Benjamin Seebohm, 1871-1954, sociologist and manufacturer
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Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, known as Seebohm, was born in York on 7 July 1871, the son of Quaker chocolate manufacturer Joseph Rowntree and his wife Emma Antoinette Seebohm.
Educated at Bootham School, York, and Owen’s College, Manchester (now the University of Manchester), he joined his father’s Cocoa Works at 18 and became a company director in 1897 when the firm was incorporated as Rowntree & Co.
In the same year he married Lydia Potter, the daughter of engineer Edwin Potter and his wife Ann. The couple had five children together.
Seebohm shared his father’s view of business as a God given trust and his employees as ‘fellow workers in a great industry.’ As Labour Director from 1897, and later as C