William Adlington Barrow Cadbury

William Adlington Cadbury (17 February 1867 – 8 July 1957), was an English businessman affiliated with his family company, Cadbury, which his grandfather, John Cadbury had founded.

Barrow Cadbury by Thomas Bowman Garvie

He was born in Edgbaston and educated at Quaker schools.[1] He began working at Cadbury in 1887.[1]

In 1905 he commissioned the first Cadbury logo.[2] In 1921, the Cadbury script logo was introduced, based on William Cadbury's signature.[2]

Family

He married Geraldine Southall (later Dame Geraldine Cadbury) on 8 September 1891, at the Friends' meeting house in Birmingham. Their children were Dorothy Adlington (1892–1987), Paul Strangman (1895–1984), and Geraldine Mary Cadbury (1900–1999).[3]

Death

He died at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, aged 90.

References
  1. Lowell Joseph Satre (2005). Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business. Ohio University Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-8214-1625-9.
  2. Cadbury logo: history, cadbury.co.uk; accessed 3 April 2016.
  3. Siân Roberts, 'Cadbury, Dame Geraldine Southall (1865–1941)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, October 2013; online edn, May 2014 accessed 2 August 2015


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