John Henry Barlow a club room for the boys where John Henry used to go and read stories and organise games for them. Eventually, Richard and his brother George Cadbury, impressed by the work he was doing in Carlisle invited him in 1900, to become the first manager of the newly formed Bournville Village Trust (BVT), the experiment in housing that he eventually established with John Henry’s help, to house the poor from the city of Birmingham as well as those who worked at the Cadbury factory. This was to prove his life’s work and he remained in Birmingham until he died in
George Cadbury in 1918. Cadbury donated the Lickey Hills Country Park to the people of Birmingham. He also donated a large house in Northfield to the Birmingham Cripples Union that was used as a hospital from 1909. It is now called the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. In 1890 he, along with a number of other leading Quakers, helped re-establish Grove House School as Leighton Park School in Reading as the leading Quaker school in Britain. He died at his home, Northfield Manor House, on 24 October 1922, aged 83. George Cadbury married twice. In 1872 he married Mary Tylor, daughter of Quaker author