Geraldine Cadbury

Dame Geraldine Cadbury, DBE ( Southall; 29 June 186430 January 1941) was a British Quaker, author, social and penal reformer. Geraldine was one of the first women in Birmingham to become a magistrate. From 1923, she chaired the justices’ panel in the Children's Court of Birmingham. In the 1930s she assumed prominent positions on several Home Office Committees and International Associations.

It was the initiative of Julia Lloyd, a Quaker, of the banking family who had studied in Germany at the Pestalozzi-Froebel Haus and then returned to work with Caroline Bishop.

In 1920, following the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919, Geraldine was one of the first women in Birmingham to become a magistrate.