User:Anna M Grey/Jean Rowntree

Jean Wilhelma Rowntree was born at Scalby, Yorkshire, on November 8 1905

She was a member of the Rowntree family [need link to family not company.

She was educated at The Mount School and Sommerville College, Oxford

She trained as a teacher and in the 1930s, she taught at Downe House school, Newbury, where she also set up one of the first citizens' advice bureaux

In 1938, she and her cousin went to Prague to help those Czechs who had spoken out against nazism to escape.

She worked for Society of Friends and Czechoslovakia Committee in Prague and London,

1938-1939.She return to England during the war to work with refugees but was employed by the BBC as a journalist

She spent 3 years after the war in Europe working with the Allied Control Commission

She worked with the BBC on Adult Education programming, leading to the Open University

Jean Rowntree was appointed OBE in 1962