William Adlington Barrow Cadbury
William Adlington Cadbury (17 February 1867 – 8 July 1957), was an English businessman affiliated with his family company, Cadbury, which his grandfather, John Cadbury had founded. He was Lord Mayor of Birmingham from 1919 to 1921.
He was born in Edgbaston and educated at Quaker schools.[1] He began working at Cadbury in 1887.[1] In 1905, he commissioned the first Cadbury logo.[2] In 1921, the Cadbury script logo was introduced, based on William Cadbury's signature.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Lowell Joseph Satre (2005). Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business. Ohio University Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-8214-1625-9.
- ^ a b Cadbury logo: history, cadbury.co.uk; accessed 3 April 2016.
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