Quaker Business Man: The Life of Joseph RowntreeThis volume focuses on the life of Joseph Rowntree of York, a renowned Quaker businessman from 1836 to 1925. Originally published in 1958, this work charts the man associated with cocoa, confectionery, the problem of national intemperance, the building of a model village and the establishment of trua=st funds to be used for the public good. |
Contents
Joseph Rowntree and his first wife facing page | 64 |
The Elect cocoa motorcar | 80 |
Factory at Tanners Moat in the nineties | 128 |
Joseph Rowntree at Scarborough 1912 | 144 |
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