Michael Rowntree

Michael Hotham Rowntree (16 February 1919 – 23 September 2007) was a British journalist and social campaigner.

He won a scholarship to Queen's College, Oxford where he read PPE for two years until the Second World War intervened.

[1] A conscientious objector, he helped Paul Cadbury and Michael Barratt Brown to re-establish the Friends Ambulance Unit ("FAU") holding many leadership positions.

He worked in Finland in 1940, then in Cairo, and became his FAU unit's leader in North Africa and then into Italy.

He was vice chair of the Oxford Area Health Authority, and a trustee of the Quaker magazine, The Friend.