Cadbury family

The Cadbury family is a British family of wealthy Quaker industrialists descending from Richard Tapper Cadbury.

  • Richard Tapper Cadbury (1768–1860), draper and abolitionist, who financed his sons' start-up business; married Elizabeth Head
    • John Cadbury (1801–1889), Quaker, family patriarch and founder of the Cadbury chocolate company working with two brothers; married firstly Priscilla Ann Dymond (1799–1828) and they had no children; married secondly Candia Barrow (1805–1855) with whom he had seven children
      • John Cadbury (1834–1866)
      • Richard Cadbury (1835–1899), manufacturer and philanthropist; married Elizabeth Adlington
      • Maria Cadbury (1838–1908)
      • George Cadbury (1839–1922), younger brother, developed the firm; married firstly Mary Tylor (died 1887); married secondly Elizabeth Mary Taylor (1858–1951)
        • Edward Cadbury, (1873–1948), head of the chocolate factory, founder of the Edward and Dorothy Cadbury Charitable Trust; married Dorothy Howitt (1872–1950)
        • George Cadbury Jr (1878–1954), chairman of Cadbury, developed the recipe for Cadbury Dairy Milk.
        • Mary Isabel Cadbury (1884–1975); married Kenneth Henry Wilson (born 1885)
        • Eleanor Cadbury (1885–1959); married Bertram Fothergill Crosfield (1882–1951), managing director of daily newspaper The News Chronicle and The Star
        • Laurence John Cadbury (1889–1982), succeeded his brother Edward as head of the chocolate company in 1944; married Joyce Mathews
        • George Norman Cadbury (1890 - 1980)
        • Elsie Dorothea Cadbury (1892–1972); Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse during World War I
        • Sir Egbert Cadbury (1893–1967), First World War fighter pilot, later managing director of the family firm; married Mary Forbes Phillips (1895–1968)
        • Marion Janet Cadbury (1894–1979); politician, married William Greeves (1890–1960)
      • Joseph Cadbury (1841–1841)
      • Edward Cadbury (1843–1866)
      • Henry Cadbury (1845–1875)
  • Richard Cadbury Barrow (1827–1894), merchant