Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald

Rowland Winn, 1st Baron St Oswald[1] (19 February 1820 – 19 January 1893) was an English industrialist and Conservative Party politician.

The eldest son of Charles Winn of Nostell Priory, near Wakefield, he lived in the 1850s in another family property, Appleby Hall near Scunthorpe, and married Harriet Dumaresque.

To transport the iron and to bring the coal necessary for the smelting, Winn campaigned for a railway to be built, which required the passage of an Act of Parliament.

He was later ennobled as Baron Saint Oswald, of Nostell in the West Riding of the County of York in 1885,[2] when the Conservatives were returned to power.

In 1897, Baron[3] and Lady St. Oswald[4] and their daughter Maud were guests at the Duchess of Devonshire's Diamond Jubilee Costume Ball.