- 176 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
The biography of Richard Cadbury, a son of one of the chocolate industry's founding families, who helped grow the business during the Victorian era. In 1824, John Cadbury opened a grocer's shop in Bull Street in Birmingham and started to sell tea, coffee, and drinking chocolate alongside everything else. In 1831, he opened a factory and started to manufacture his own product, and by 1842 the company was selling almost thirty different types of drinking chocolate and cocoa. In 1861, the now floundering firm was taken over by two of his sons, Richard and George, who turned things around and continued to grow the company into the organization known around the world today. The Life of Richard Cadbury is a brand-new biography that focuses on the lesser known of the brothers, looking at the history and background behind the socialist, philanthropist, and chocolatier.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Chapter 1 Background in brief
- Chapter 2 Childhood and growing up
- Chapter 3 The world of work and adventure
- Chapter 4 The firm of Cadbury
- Chapter 5 Family man
- Chapter 6 Moseley Hall, Uffculme, and the family book
- Chapter 7 A creative life
- Chapter 8 Religion, the mission, and other philanthropy
- Chapter 9 Public service
- Chapter 10 A traveller to the end
- Author’s Note
- Appendices: Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Appendix III
- Further Reading
- About the Author
- Plate section