Richard Tapper Cadbury

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name = Richard Tapper Cadbury


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caption = Cadbury in 1840. [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp00224&rNo=0&role=sit The Anti-Slavery Society Convention] , 1840, Benjamin Robert Haydon, accessed 19 July 2008]
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birth_date = 1768
birth_place = likely Exeter
death_date = 13 March 1860
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nationality =British
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occupation = Draper
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spouse = Elizabeth Head Cadbury [ [http://www.nndb.com/people/770/000168266/ John Cadbury at nndb] ]
children = Benjamin and John Cadbury
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religion = Quaker


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Richard Tapper Cadbury (1768–13 March 1860) came to Birmingham in 1794 and started a linen draper's business in partnership with a fellow Quaker [http://www.cadbury.co.uk/EN/CTB2003/about_chocolate/cadbury_milestones/1750_1799/1790/ Cadbury Company History] ] His children included John Cadbury who was given help to start a tea and coffee business that would develop into Cadbury's.

Biography

Cadbury came from Exeter and he was born around 1768. His father was a maker of serge and he was a apprenticed to a draper in Gloucester after which he worked for others in the town. [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6gU8lKXcGsEC&pg=PA53&vq=tapper+cadbury&dq=%22Richard+Tapper+Cadbury%22+Quaker+John+Benjamin&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1&sig=ACfU3U0kBAKAoUp59YKrzL9xxSPsLgFFPg The Rise of the English Town, 1650-1850] , Christopher W. Chalklin, p.53, 2001, ISBN:0521667372] He was in Birmingham in partnership with Joseph Rutte from 1794 and he married Elizabeth Head from Ipswich in 1796. Two years later the partnership with Rutte was dissolved.

Elizabeth had ten children who were John, James, Ann, Maria, Lucretia, Sarah, Emma Joel, Elizabeth Head, Richard, Benjamin Head, and Joel. [http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/encyclopaedia!openframeset&frame=Right&Src=/edible.nsf/pages/johncadbury!opendocument Practically Edible page for John Cadbury] ] However it was her role to run the business when Richard was not there. They had a sizable house in the centre and in 1824, John Cadbury, was financed by his father to start a tea and coffee business next door whilst Benjamin Cadbury ran the main business from 1829. Richard was given a wage and was able to take on good works.

Cadbury continued to develop the business, but also took a role in civil affairs. He served on Birmingham General Hospital's Board and that of the Eye Hospital as well as getting involved in the affairs of the Town Council.

In 1840 Cadbury attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention at Freemason's Hall in London. Delegates came from several different countries and a commemorative painting records all the notable people who were present. Tapper Cadbury is right at the back of the crowd and his portrait is one of the smallest. However his picture is displayed in the National Portrait Gallery as a consequence, together with the other notables who attended the conference.

Cadbury died in 1860, the same year that John Cadbury broke his financial links with his brother and shortly after left the business to be run by his sons.

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