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

Cadbury Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company fully owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) since 2010. It is the second largest confectionery brand in the world after Mar ...

, which his grandfather,

John Cadbury John Cadbury (12 August 1801 – 11 May 1889) was a Quaker and English proprietor, tea and coffee trader and founder of Cadbury, the chocolate business based in Birmingham, England. Life John Cadbury was born in Birmingham on 12 August 1801 t ...

had founded. He was

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in 1919-1921. He was born in

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and educated at

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schools. He began working at Cadbury in 1887. In 1905, he commissioned the first Cadbury logo.Cadbury logo: history
cadbury.co.uk; accessed 3 April 2016. In 1921, the Cadbury script logo was introduced, based on William Cadbury's signature.

Family

He married Emmeline H. Wilson in 1902 and they had six children: Hannah (1903), John (1905), Alan (1907), Constance (1910), Richard (1911) and Brandon (1915).

Death

He died at

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, aged 90.

References

English businesspeople English Quakers People from Edgbaston 1867 births 1957 deaths {{England-business-bio-stub