Prominent British family of Quaker industrialists
The Cadbury family is a British family of wealthy Quaker industrialists descending from Richard Tapper Cadbury.[1]
- Richard Tapper Cadbury (1768–1860), draper and abolitionist, who financed his sons' start-up business
- John Cadbury (1801–1889), Quaker, family patriarch and founder of the Cadbury chocolate company working with two brothers; married Candia Barrow
- Richard Cadbury (1835–1899), manufacturer and philanthropist; married Elizabeth Adlington
- George Cadbury (1839–1922), younger brother, developed the firm; married Mary Tylor
- Edward Cadbury, (1873–1948), head of the chocolate factory, founder of the Edward Cadbury Charitable Trust[7]
- George Cadbury Jr (1878–1954), chairman of Cadbury, developed the recipe for Cadbury Dairy Milk.[8]
- Laurence John Cadbury (1889–1982), succeeded his brother Edward as head of the chocolate company in 1944
- Sir Egbert Cadbury (1893–1967), First World War fighter pilot and later managing director of the family firm[10]
- Marion Cadbury (1894–1979); married William Greeves (1890–1960)
- Richard Cadbury Barrow (1827–1894), merchant