Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Edward Cadbury

From Graces Guide
1937. Bio Note.
1937. Bio Note.

Edward Cadbury (1873- ), Chairman of Cadbury Brothers


1937 Bio Note [1]

CADBURY, Edward; b. March 20th, 1873, at George Road, Edgbaston; e. s. of George and Mary (Tylor) Cadbury. J.P. (Worcs.), 1906. Edue.:. Friends' School, Olivers' Mount, Scarborough, London, and Germany. Chairman of Cadbury Bros., Ltd. (Managing Director since 1899), 1932; Director of Daily News, Ltd., and Chairman of Company, 1911-1930, 1902; Trustee of Bournville Village Trust, 1899; Director of British Cocoa and Chocolate Co., Ltd., 1919; Part Donor of Lickey Hills Gift to Corporation; Part Donor of Chadwick Estate Gift to National Trust; a Life Governor of Birmingham University, 1913; Chairman and Treasurer (since 1919) of the Council of Selly Oak Colleges, 1926; m. Dorothy, d. of Francis Howitt, M.D., of Nottingham, October 22nd, 1896. Publications: Women's Work and Wages (with George Shann), 1906; Sweating (with George Shann), 1907; Experiments in Industrial Organization, 1912. Recreations Golf, fishing and farming. Address: Westholme, Bournville, and Heanor, Rednal.


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Sources of Information

  1. 1937-8 Birmingham Year Book