Background
Having served his apprenticeship in his father"s shop at The Pavement in York, and following his father"s death in 1860, Henry Rowntree went to work for the Tuke family at their shop in Walmgate.
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In June 1862 Henry Isaac bought out the chocolate, cocoa-making and chicory departments and ran the business himself employing around a dozen people. He followed Quaker principles and always insisted on the highest quality. In August 1864 he bought a disused foundry at Tanners Moat and built a new factory there.
They had three children: Francis Henry, born 1868, Alice Mary, born 1870 and Ethel, born 1873.
