William Adlington Barrow Cadbury

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William Adlington Cadbury (17 February 1867 - 8 July 1957) was an English businessman affiliated with his family company, Cadbury.

He was born in Edgbaston and educated at Quaker schools.[1]

He began working at Cadbury in 1887.[1]

He married Geraldine Southall on the 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).[2]

In 1905 he commissioned the first Cadbury logo.[3] In 1921, the Cadbury script logo was introduced, based on William Cadbury's signature.[3]

He died at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.

References

  1. 1 2 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. ↑ Siân Roberts, ‘Cadbury, Dame Geraldine Southall (1865–1941)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oct 2013; online edn, May 2014 accessed 2 Aug 2015
  3. 1 2 http://www.cadbury.co.uk/the-story


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