16 Facts About George Cadbury

George Cadbury was an English Quaker businessman and social reformer who expanded his father's Cadbury's cocoa and chocolate company in Britain.

George Cadbury was the son of John Cadbury, a tea and coffee dealer, and his wife Candia.

George Cadbury worked at a school for adults on Sundays with no pay, despite only going to the school himself till he was fifteen.

The George Cadbury brothers were concerned with the quality of life of their employees and provided an alternative to city life.

Nineteen years after Richard died, George Cadbury opened a works committee for each gender which discussed proposals for improving the firm.

George Cadbury pressed ahead with other ideas, like an annuity, a deposit account and education facilities for every employee.

In 1901, disgusted by the imperialistic policy of the Unionist Government dominated by Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, and opposed to the Boer War, George Cadbury bought the Daily News and used the paper to campaign for old age pensions and against the war and sweatshop labour.

George Cadbury was actively involved in politics and supported William Gladstone.

In 1907, George Cadbury bought Selly Manor, an old Tudor house menaced by destruction in the surroundings of Birmingham.

George Cadbury decided to rescue, preserve and move it to Bournville.

George Cadbury was one of the prime movers in setting up The Birmingham Civic Society in 1918.

George Cadbury donated the Lickey Hills Country Park to the people of Birmingham.

George Cadbury donated a large house in Northfield to the Birmingham Cripples Union that was used as a hospital from 1909.

George Cadbury died at home, Northfield Manor House, on 24 October 1922, aged 83 of natural causes.

George Cadbury was the mother of George Jr, Mary Isabel, Edward, Henry, and Eleanor Cadbury.

George Cadbury has a miniature locomotive named after him, originally owned by the husband of his daughter Elsie Dorothea, Geoffrey Hoyland.