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Jean's personal life
Jean Wilhelma Rowntree was born at Scalby, Yorkshire, on November 8 1905. Daughter to John Wilhelm, who died just before she was born, and sister to Lawrence, killed in action in 1917 at the Battle of Passcehndaele. Jean Wilhelma Rowntree was the youngest daughter of John Wilhelm Rowntree and Constance Margaret Rowntree (born Naish) and the granddaughter of Quaker confectionery manufacturer and philanthropist Joseph Rowntree Constance ; she was strongly influenced by her grandfather's views on industrial relations and human rights. She was educated at The Mount School for girls in York and then at Somerville College, Oxford. During the 1930s, she taught at Downe House school, Newbury, where she also set up one of the first citizens' advice bureaux.