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Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald
English industrialist and Conservative politician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald[1] (19 February 1820 – 19 January 1893) was an English industrialist and Conservative Party politician.
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He was instrumental in promoting and developing the ironstone ore fields in North Lincolnshire leading to the establishment of Scunthorpe as a national iron production center, and a key promoter of the Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway.