Cadbury, Geraldine Southall (1865–1941)

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Cadbury, Geraldine Southall (1865–1941)

English social reformer. Name variations: Dame Geraldine Cadbury. Born Geraldine Southall in 1865; died Jan 30, 1941; m. Barrow Cadbury (chair of Cadbury Bros, Ltd., 1922–32); children: Geraldine Mary "Cherry" Cadbury; Paul Cadbury; Dorothy Adlington Cadbury (botanist).

Social activist, long involved in the Birmingham Quaker peace movement. Made DBE (1937).

See also Maggie Goodrich, Geraldine Cadbury, 1965–1941: The Problem of Deprived and Delinquent Children (Social Reformers) and Percy W. Bartlett Barrow Cadbury: A Memoir (1960).