1. Dame Elizabeth Mary Cadbury was a British activist, politician and philanthropist.
19 Facts About Elizabeth Cadbury
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Elizabeth Cadbury's parents were active temperance crusaders, and enthusiasts for the adult education provided by mechanics' institutes.
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Elizabeth Cadbury was raised as a Quaker, visited workhouses with her mother and volunteered at children's hospitals in her youth.
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Elizabeth Cadbury did attend public lectures held at the London Institution.
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In Peckham Rye, on 19 June 1888, Elizabeth Cadbury married George and became his second wife.
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Elizabeth Cadbury built The Beeches, to provide holidays for slum children.
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Elizabeth Cadbury chaired the Birmingham school medical service committee and worked energetically to provide medical inspection in schools.
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Elizabeth Cadbury taught a class for the wives of her husband's students at the Severn Street Adult School in Birmingham.
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The founder in 1898 of the Birmingham Union of Girls' Clubs, Elizabeth Cadbury was active in the National Council for Women from 1896 to her death.
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Elizabeth Cadbury was the founder of the Midlands Division of the Young Women's Christian Association.
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Elizabeth Cadbury was Vice President of the Electrical Association for Women, an organisation which sought to promote the benefits of electricity in the home and alleviate women's domestic drudgery.
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Elizabeth Cadbury was the first chair of the Peace and International Relations Committee of the National Council of Women, established in 1914.
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Elizabeth Cadbury was an energetic supporter of the League of Nations Union.
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In national politics Elizabeth Cadbury's sympathies were similar to those usually associated with Christian socialism, and she was a pillar of the Liberal Party.
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Elizabeth Cadbury was a Birmingham city councillor, for King's Norton ward, from 1919 to 1924, as a Liberal, losing her seat to a Conservative.
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Elizabeth Cadbury's political platform was a reformist one: municipal action in housing improvement, a school health service, and equality of opportunity.
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Elizabeth Cadbury was influential in the development of Bournville Village and was vice-president of the Ruskin Society of Birmingham.
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At her death in 1951, Elizabeth Cadbury was survived by, among others, 37 grandchildren and 49 great-grandchildren.
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The ten medals that Dame Elizabeth Cadbury was awarded throughout her life are now held at the Elizabeth Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.