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George and Cadbury
In 1893, George Cadbury bought of land close to the works and planned, at his own expense, a model village which would ' alleviate the evils of modern more cramped living conditions '.
The Selly Oak campus is now home to the Department of Drama Theatre Arts in the newly refurbished Old Library and George Cadbury Hall, 200 seat theatre. The UK daytime television show Doctors is filmed on this campus.
** George Cadbury ( 1839 – 1922 ), younger brother, developed the firm and perfected the recipe for Dairy Milk
**** ( George ) Adrian Cadbury ( born 1929 ), businessman and commentator on corporate governance
He took a job as personal secretary to George Cadbury Junior, with a wage of £ 200 a year, which he planned to hold until he qualified as a barrister.
He had been invited to become the Liberal candidate for Cambridge in 1911, but he refused because he had no income ; he did, however, help his employer George Cadbury, Jr. get elected as a Liberal council member in Birmingham and helped start a branch of the National League of Young Liberals in the city.
Having taken over their father John Cadbury's expanding business in 1861, the Quakers George and Richard Cadbury needed to move their cocoa and chocolate factory from Bridge Street in central Birmingham to a greenfield site to allow for expansion.
In 1893, George Cadbury bought 120 acres ( 0. 5 km² ) of land close to the works and planned, at his own expense, a model village which would ' alleviate the evils of modern more cramped living conditions '.
It is also noteworthy that, because George Cadbury was a temperance Quaker, no public houses have ever been built in Bournville ; however, since the late 1940s, there has been a licensed members ' bar at Rowheath Pavilion.
Rowheath Pavilion was designed and built in accordance with the instructions of George Cadbury and opened in July 1924.
Bournville Rest House was built to celebrate the Silver Wedding Anniversary of George and Elizabeth Cadbury, and was paid for by the employees of Cadbury Brothers Ltd.
In 1900, the Bournville Village Trust was set up to formally control the development of the estate, independently of George Cadbury or the Cadbury company.
The Bournville Friends Meeting House is located on Linden Road, and features a bust of George Cadbury by Francis Wood, installed in 1924.
Northfield Manor House-former home of George Cadbury and now owned by Birmingham University
The specialist Royal Orthopaedic Hospital stands on the Bristol Road South, George Cadbury bought the Woodlands, as it was originally called, and gifted it to the Crippled Children ’ s Union in 1909 to be used as a hospital.
On 8 June 2002 at Fairford, he married Eleanor M. Cadbury ( born London, 26 January 1973 ), a scion of the Cadbury chocolate family, whose father Peter Hugh George Cadbury was Chairman of Close Brothers Corporate Finance, and wife ( 1969 ) Sally Strouvelle.
George Cadbury ( 19 September 1839 – 24 October 1922 ) was the third son of John Cadbury, a Quaker who founded Cadbury's cocoa and chocolate company.
George Cadbury was one of the prime movers in setting up The Birmingham Civic Society in 1918.
George Cadbury married twice.
* Birmingham UK: George Cadbury Biography

George and Quaker
Walt Whitman, who was raised by parents inspired by Quaker thought, later wrote: " George Fox stands for something too — a thought — the thought that wakes in silent hours — perhaps the deepest, most eternal thought latent in the human soul.
Later, Sondheim attended the New York Military Academy and George School, a private Quaker preparatory school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he wrote his first musical (" By George !").
Worried that Loker may die, Eliza convinces George to bring the slave hunter to a nearby Quaker settlement for medical treatment.
The latter were first introduced into central London in the 1820s by George Shillibeer, following his successful trial of the world's first school bus for William Allen and Susannah Corder's novel Quaker school, Newington Academy for Girls.
After a search of possible festivals, local grocery store owner John Walters discovered from the Quaker grits people that the upper part of Dorchester County ( of which Saint George is located ) consumes more grits per capita than any other place in the world.
* George Fox ( 1624 – 1691 ), a founder of the Quaker movement
* George Whitehead ( 1636 – 1723 ), Quaker leader and author of The Christian Progress of George Whitehead
The Minthorns were administrators of the Quaker middle school Friends Pacific Academy, now George Fox University, which Hoover and his brother Tad attended.
He printed a tract of George Keith that contained material objectionable to the Quaker community leaders.
* George Fox, Quaker
Philadelphia novelist and journalist George Lippard included a dedication to Brown in his 1845 bestseller The Quaker City ; or, The Monks of Monk Hall.
His close friendship with William Penn and George Fox made him an influential figure in the Quaker movement: Penn married his friend Gulielma Pennington.
In 1668 he lent assistance to George Fox in his attempt to crush John Perrot, leader of a body of Quaker dissenters who insisted on wearing their hats during worship, and he travelled with Fox through the west of England on an organising expedition.
He lived in retirement at Amersham for the greater part of his remaining years, writing constantly against internal divisions in the Quaker ranks, and denouncing in 1684 the heresy of George Keith.
Poe may have also seen similar themes in Honoré de Balzac's " Le Grande Bretêche " ( Democratic Review, November 1843 ) or his friend George Lippard's The Quaker City ; or The Monks of Monk Hall ( 1845 ).
His maternal fourth great grandfather was Richard Bennett ( Governor ) of Virginia, elected to that office during the Cromwell Protectorate and a Puritan at the time who in 1672 was converted to the Quaker movement by George Fox.
George Fox was horrified by the Bristol event, recounting in his Journal that " James ran out into imaginations, and a company with him ; and they raised up a great darkness in the nation ", despite Nayler's account of his actions being consistent with Quaker theology, and despite similar lofty language used by Fox and the other Quakers themselves.
A collected edition of the Tracts of Nayler appeared in 1716, edited by his friend ( and important early Quaker ) George Whitehead, though Whitehead omitted Nayler's more controversial works.
A local field bears the name of Fox's Midsummer where George Fox, the founder of the Quaker movement, held secret nighttime meetings.
What is now Longwood Gardens was originally purchased from William Penn in 1700 by a fellow Quaker named George Peirce ( 1646 – 1734 ).
Impressed by the writings of William Penn, George Fox, and Quaker beliefs, in 1796 he joined the Society of Friends.
Frustrated by their failure to achieve this end, AQAG members including Scott and “ convinced ” Quaker George Willoughby, refashioned the group as the Movement for A New Society in 1971.
The school ’ s name was changed to George Fox College in 1949 to honor George Fox, the founder of the Quaker movement.

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