History of Cadbury Cadbury's) and Roses (1938). By 1930 Cadbury had become the 24th largest British manufacturing company as measured by estimated market value of capital. Cadbury took direct control of the under-performing Fry in 1935. By 1936, Dairy Milk accounted for 60 percent of the UK milk chocolate market. Chocolate ceased to be a luxury product and became affordable to the working classes for the first time. By the mid-1930s, Cadbury estimated that 90 percent of the British population could afford to buy chocolate. During World War II, parts of the Bournville factory were turned over to war work, producing milling machines
William Warder Cadbury for the Western District (now called the Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting). He had 3 older siblings and 2 younger siblings. W. W. Cadbury is distantly related to John Cadbury, founder of Cadbury, the chocolate company. (W.W. Cadbury's great-grandfather, Richard Tapper Cadbury, was the father of John Cadbury.) He graduated from the William Penn Charter School in 1894. In 1898, he graduated from Haverford College with a B.A. and then went on to get an M.A. from Haverford in 1899. In the 1900 US Census, at age 22, he was listed as "medical student" under his family's name. He graduated from