Papers relating to Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's notable birthdays

This section contains material relating to Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's notable birthdays including her twenty-first, eightieth, ninetieth and ninety-second birthdays between 1879 and 1950. The section features newspaper articles relating to Taylor Cadbury's birthday celebrations and lists of gifts which she received alongside a large number of letters sent to Taylor Cadbury by her extended family, including the Taylor and Cash families, her grandchildren in the Cadbury family and her American cousin Rufus Jones. The section also contains poems and tributes sent to Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury by her friend and colleague H. G. Wood as well as formal birthday greetings which were sent by the Malvern Branch of the National Council of Women and staff at the Cadbury family's chocolate factory in Bournville.

Finding number: MS 466/143, 171, 175-8, 180, 188

Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury was born on 24th June 1858 and died aged ninety three on 4th December 1951. Throughout her long life devoted to public philanthropic work, Taylor Cadbury made many close friends, particularly amongst people with whom she was associated through her work supporting education and welfare in Birmingham and through her involvement with the Society of Friends. During her lifetime she earned a local, national and international reputation for her public work supporting social service and frequently received letters and gifts from a wide range of relatives friends, colleagues and public figures commemorating her notable birthdays, particularly as she reached the age of ninety in 1948.