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Joseph Rowntree , the son of a Quaker grocer, was born in York on 24th May, 1834. After only five years of schooling Joseph began work as a grocer. He started with his father at fourteen but part of his apprenticeship involved working in London . While www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RErowntreeJ.htm
Joseph Rowntree was born in 1836 into a Quaker family in York. A grocer's son, he left the family business to run a small and struggling cocoa factory with his brother, Henry Isaac . Just as they had begun to turn the business round, Henry Isaac died. www.jrct.org.uk/text.asp?section=000100030005