Richard Tapper Cadbury

Richard Tapper Cadbury
Cadbury in 1840.[1]
Born1768
likely Exeter[2]
Died13 March 1860[2] (aged 92)
Birmingham
OccupationDraper
SpouseElizabeth Head[3]
Children10, including John

Richard Tapper Cadbury (1768 – 13 March 1860) was an English draper, abolitionist and philanthropist.[4] He came to Birmingham in 1794 and started a linen draper's business in partnership with a fellow Quaker. His children included John Cadbury, who was given help to start a tea and coffee business that would develop into Cadbury's. Successive later members of the family became important in the manufacturing and charity sectors, chiefly from their wealth and innovations in chocolate.

  1. ^ The Anti-Slavery Society Convention Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, 1840, Benjamin Robert Haydon, [dead link]
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference pe was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ John Cadbury at nndb
  4. ^ Gail Lewis: Forming Nation, Framing Welfare (London: Routledge, 1998), p. 23.