Dorothy Adlington Cadbury

Dorothy Adlington Cadbury (14 October 1892 – 21 August 1987) was an English botanist and director of confectionery company Cadbury's. She was an expert on pondweeds, collecting many Potamogeton samples for the British Museum, and was the lead author of the main flora of Warwickshire in the 20th century.

Life Born in Birmingham in 1892, she was the oldest child of Dame Geraldine Cadbury (1864–1941) and Barrow Cadbury (1862–1958). She was raised as a Quaker, and remained a committed member of the society throughout her life. She became involved with the International Industrial Relations Institute, serving as its treasurer until resigning at their second conference in 1928. She was also managing chair of the Bournville Women’s Works Council. Cadbury had maintained a wildflower collection as a child, collecting around 1000 specimens with her mother, and for the rest of her life enjoyed ‘painting in’ the illustrations in her childhood copy of Bentham & Hooker ‘s Flora of the British Isles. She became a member of the Botanical Society of the British Isles in 1936. and soon after made a complete list of Edgbaston Park flowering plants. Cadbury collected 400 potamogeton samples from around Britain for The British Museum.

Dorothy Cadbury died in 1987, aged 94 years old. An undated portrait of Cadbury by Elliot and Fry is held at the National Portrait Gallery in London.