John Cadbury

Born: 12-Aug-1801

Birthplace: Birmingham, West Midlands, England

Died: 11-May-1889

Location of death: Birmingham, West Midlands, England

Cause of death: Illness

Remains: Buried, Witton Cemetery, Birmingham, West Midlands, England

Gender: Male

Religion: Quaker

Race or Ethnicity: White

Sexual orientation: Straight

Occupation: Business

Nationality: England

Executive summary: Chocolatier

John Cadbury was apprenticed to a tea dealer in his teens and early twenties, then opened a tea and coffee shop in Birmingham in 1824, with a small selection of cocoa and chocolate that came to be his best-selling items. In 1831 he began making his own cocoa and chocolate, in 1847 his brother Benjamin joined the firm, and in 1853 Cadbury Brothers received a royal warrant as official confectioners for Queen Victoria. Cadbury paid his workers well, established work councils to hear and resolve employee grievances, and kept a physician on staff to provide for workers' health care. He campaigned to outlaw child labor, and was a founding member of the Animals Friends Society, which later evolved into the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He sank into depression after the death of his wife in 1855, and the business faltered until he retired in 1861, turning the company over to his sons, who manufactured Cadbury's first Easter eggs in 1875 and revitalized the business. Cadbury died in 1889, and left his home to his church, the Religious Society of Friends.

Father: Richard Tapper Cadbury (linen draper, b. 1768, d. 1860)

Mother: Elizabeth Head Cadbury (m. 1796)

Sister: Sarah Cadbury

Sister: Ann Cadbury

Brother: Benjamin Head Cadbury (Cadbury executive, b. 1798, d. 1880)

Sister: Elizabeth Head Cadbury

Sister: Emma Cadbury (b. 1811, d. 1905)

Brother: James Cadbury

Brother: Joel Cadbury

• ************Sister: Lucretia Cadbury ***************************************

Sister: Maria Cadbury

Brother: Richard Cadbury

Wife: Priscilla Ann Dymond Cadbury (b. 1799, m. 1826, d. 1828, no children)

Wife: Candia Barrow Cadbury (b. 1805, m. 1831, d. 1855, seven children)

Son: John Cadbury (b. 1834, d. 1866)

Son: Richard Cadbury (Cadbury executive, b. 1835, d. 1899)

Daughter: Maria Cadbury (b. 1838, d. 1908)

Son: George Cadbury (Cadbury executive, b. 19-Sep-1839, d. 1922)

Son: Joseph Cadbury (b. 1841, d. 1841)

Son: Edward Cadbury (b. 1843, d. 1866)

Son: Henry Cadbury (b. 1845, d. 1875)

   Cadbury Schweppes Founder & President (1824-61) of Cadbury Brothers

   Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 

   Risk Factors: Depression

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Joseph the Fifth 1752 - 1817

Joseph V lived in the parish of Olveston, farming at Elberton and at Sheepcombe. His first wife was Sarah Sargent, and he wrote that in the four years before she died they “lived together in much love, never having, I believe, evil thought or word against each other.”

In 1787, six years after her death, he married Mary, the only child of Thomas Marshall of Kingley - which was a substantial farmhouse on the Earl of Hertford’s estate. Mary was short and slender and undoubtedly attractive; those of us who have seen her beautiful wedding- dress can picture her as a bride. She had had many admirers, some of whom were mentioned in a long poem written to celebrate - or lament - her marriage. She was “a bright, capable woman, a devoted wife, fond of all outdoor pursuits - she taught her son Charles to swim - and was the “stay” of the family; to her the children looked for guidance and from her they derived their philanthropic qualities and literary taste.” Like other women in the family Mary did much to help poorer Friends.

Joseph in his turn was “a very kind husband: nothing was too good for his wife. New Leaze was a costly house and nothing was too good for it either.” This was the new home to which he retired with Mary towards the end of his life. They had had twelve children but our only glimpse of him as a father is that “he used to call his sons at four o’clock, and if on returning at six he found them still in bed he would say, “Thomas and Joseph, are you going to lie in bed all day long?””

As a farmer, we know that “he rode each Spring into Merionethshire to buy black cattle and into Dorsetshire to purchase sheep. These were fattened in the rich meadows round Olveston and sold off; those being kept through the winter were fed only on hay, roots being then not much grown for cattle. The Merionethshire cattle were very wild, and on their arrival had brass knobs screwed on the tips of their long horns to prevent their goring.”

All but one of the twelve children grew up, their combined lifespans totally 675 years. The eldest, Rebecca, never married; Mary married “a bad man” but had fifteen children. Next came Thomas Marshall, a respected wool-stapler in Olveston who later joined his brothers’ firm of corn merchants, working for them in Gloucester. He was “a large, powerfully-made man, full of information and generally popular, though having strong prejudices.” He married Hannah Enoch, and it was one of their sons, another Joseph, who emigrated and established the New Zealand Sturges with his own eight children.

Joseph VI and Charles are described later. Sophia kept house for Joseph except during his marriage; she was perhaps rather strict, as there is mention of her insisting on Greek lessons for visiting nephews supposed to be on holiday. Priscilla married Sam Southall and Lucretia became Mrs James Cadbury.

John was a chemical manufacturer in Bewdley, after an apprenticeship in London, and moved to Edgbaston to start with Edmund the firm of J. & E. Sturge. His children were Lewis and Lucy who married Colin Scott Moncrieff. John died suddenly whilst away from home and was refused Christian burial as being unbaptised. Henry was in business in Bewdley; his brother Charles bought and enlarged the Summer House for him but Henry died when only forty. His daughter married Georges Appia, a well-known French Protestant pastor. Then by his second marriage to his cousin Lydia, Henry became the grandfather of Sturge Moore the poet and George E. Moore O.M., the Cambridge philosopher.

Anna died as a baby, but the youngest, Edmund, who married Lydia Albright and became “Gentleman Sturge” of Charlbury, lived to be nearly eighty-five. His daughter Margaret married her cousin Lewis Sturge, then later the widower of her cousin Lucy, Colin Scott Moncrieff (see above.) Edmund’s son John Edmund married Jane Richardson of Newcastle-on-Tyne; their daughters Hilda, Olga (Ball) and Elfrida (Cameron) were all born in Montserrat and later lived and died in Cambridge.

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