William Warder Cadbury

William Warder Cadbury (Chinese name: 嘉惠霖; 1877 – October 15, 1959) was an American physician, professor, researcher, author, and medical missionary. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania's Medical School, he traveled to Canton (Guangzhou), China, where he eventually became the most well-known internal medicine doctor in the region during the time period of the Republic of China. At Canton Hospital, he served as a doctor, professor, writer, and eventually superintendent multiple times. In his 40 years working in Canton (1909-1949), he put forward relentless efforts to improve the Canton Hospital and nearby areas in Canton, bettering the health of many thousands of Canton people. In 1935, he published a detailed book on the history of the hospital, called At the Point of a Lancet." One Hundred Years of the Canton Hospital, 1835-1935, which earned him recognition as the top 10 famous University of Pennsylvania Alumni for 1935.

Early life and education W.W. Cadbury was born in 1877 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Some say his birth date is October 15, W. W. Cadbury is distantly related to John Cadbury, founder of Cadbury, the chocolate company. From 1903 to 1905, he was a resident physician at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. Afterwards, he went to Vienna for graduate school and then returned to the University of Pennsylvania to teach pathology and pharmacology. He worked as a pathologist at St. Mary's Hospital from 1906 to 1909. Then, in 1917, he married Catharine Balderston Jones, who changed her name to Catharine Jones Cadbury. They had three daughters, Jane B. Cadbury, Emma Cadbury, and Catharine C. Cadbury.

While in Canton, Cadbury and his family lived in the William Penn Lodge. This home was gifted to him by the University of Pennsylvania's Christian Association. Happer was inspired to work in China after hearing a lecture by Peter Parker, the founder of the hospital in which W.W. Cadbury would work for much of his life: Canton Hospital.

In 1909, as a member of the University of Pennsylvania Christian Association, Cadbury traveled to Canton, China, by ship to work at the University Medical School. This school was associated with Canton Christian College (later renamed Lingnan University in 1927) and managed by the board of the Christian Association of the University of Pennsylvania. He had chosen to work in a location in China removed from visible poverty. The Society of Friends in Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting supported his work. The Cadbury Fund was created to assist him: it raised $2,000 annually to subsidize his missionary work.

Cadbury believed he had a duty to bring Western Medicine to China and to help the people of China. He revealed this feeling of duty in a 1911 letter to the editor of a medical journal. He referenced how European doctors dedicated their lives to developing medicine in the American colonies, and thus he believed that American doctors had the duty to do the same for the people of China. He said: "Can we, who have reaped what they have sowed, do better than follow their example and help the men in this great land of China to realize their ideals of establishing schools of medicine modeled after the institutions of Europe and America?"

Canton Hospital & Lingnan University Professor and Doctor

Cadbury started his work in Canton as a teacher at the University Medical School (part of Canton Christian College) and as a physician (an internist specifically) at Canton Hospital.

Chinese-US relations Cadbury always emphasized that Canton Christian College was entirely a Chinese institution just receiving aid from foreigners. Though few people remember the name "William Warder Cadbury," his efforts undeniably led to the improvement of the health of thousands in Canton, China during the years of the Republic of China.