10 Facts About Peter Cadbury

Peter Cadbury's father was a World War I flying ace and managing director of Cadbury Brothers, the chocolate enterprise.

Peter Cadbury was educated at Leighton Park School, a Quaker school in Reading, Berkshire founded by his grandfather, George Peter Cadbury, and at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Peter Cadbury followed his father into flying, with an early career as a test pilot for jet fighters during World War II.

Peter Cadbury stood as a Liberal candidate in Stroud at the 1945 General Election and finished third.

Peter Cadbury was known for his frequent rows with neighbours, the press, fellow club members and liverymen, as well as even with his own board of directors.

Peter Cadbury was more than once involved in fistfights on roads over his driving.

Peter Cadbury owned an Aston Martin V8 Vantage, a Ferrari, a Bentley, numerous yachts, racehorses, properties in the West Indies, and a succession of grand country mansions, one of which had an airstrip and a hangar for five aircraft.

Peter Cadbury's once owned Tittenhurst Park at Sunninghill in Berkshire, which he later sold to Ron Blindell which was purchased by John Lennon following Blindell's death.

Peter Cadbury was an animal lover who kept a parrot, a Great Dane, and a Rwandan gorilla.

Peter Cadbury married again in 1970 to Mrs Jennifer Morgan-Jones, who was 27 years younger and with whom he had another son, before they divorced in 1976.