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
John Cadbury John Cadbury John Cadbury (12 August 1801 – 11 May 1889) was an English proprietor and founder of Cadbury, the chocolate business based in Birmingham, England. John Cadbury was born in Birmingham on 12 August 1801 to Richard Tapper Cadbury and his wife Elizabeth Head. He was from a wealthy Quaker family that moved to the area from the west of England. John went to school at Joseph Crosfields Quaker School at Hartshill, Warwickshire. As a Quaker in the early 19th century, he was not allowed to enter a university, so could not pursue a profession such as medicine or