Seebohm rowntree short biography

Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree was born in York on 7th July, He was the third child of Joseph Rowntree and Emma Seebohm. He was educated at the York Quaker Boarding School and Owen College, Manchester.

In Rowntree was appointed as a director of his father's successful business in York.

Like his father, Seebohm believed it was his duty to help the poor and disadvantaged. On Sundays he taught at the York Adult School.

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He also visited the homes of his students and obtained first-hand knowledge of their problems.

In the s Joseph Rowntree, had carried out two major surveys into poverty in Britain. Inspired by his father's work and the study by Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People in London (), Seebohm Rowntree decided to carry out his own investigations into poverty in York.

Rowntree spent two years on the project and the results of his study, Poverty, A Study of Town Life, was published in

In his study, Rowntree distinguished between families