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Colin Rowntree - Architect

 

Born 9th August 1891
Married 30th Oct 1915 
to (Ada) Mary Begg - born 14th May 1984 -died 11 Nov 1967  (1968)
Died 13 November 1965

Children -
Michael born 7th Nov 1915  died 10 July 1942
Paul Rowntree born 27 May 1920 died 11 Sept 1999

Colin Rowntree in World War 1

Colin  Rowntree from the Bootham Register

From  Dictionary of Scottish Architects 1840-1940

Fred Rowntree and Sons
Fred Rowntree

Colin Rowntree

Douglas Woodville Rowntree

Colin Rowntree was born on 9 August 1891 at 9 Queen Square, Strathbungo, the son of architect Fred Rowntree and his wife Mary Anna Gray and younger He practised in partnership with his father and brother in Hammersmith, London from 1912 as Rowntree & Sons.


Attended Bootham

1891

born at

9 Queen Square, Strathbungo

 

1901

lived at

23 Palace Mansions Fulham

 

1914

known at

23 Fairfax Rd (Mary Begg)

 

1914-1925

lived at

45 Strand on the Green

at War - Friend Ambulance

1925-30

lived at

Brandsby

 

1937-49

lived at

17 Stonegate York

 

1949

Office at

Museum Chambers York

 

1950

lived at

120 The Mount York

 

 

Friends Ambulance 1914-18

Directorate of War Graves Commission 1914-18

1918 A.R.I.B.A.

Royal Engineers 

1940  No.4 Graves Registration and Enquiry Unit - Aldershot.

45 Strand on the Green ( Picton House)

A letter from the next Generation