Dame Elizabeth Mary Cadbury DBE (née Taylor; 24 June 1858 – 4 December 1951) was a British activist, politician and philanthropist.

[1] Born in Peckham Rye, Southwark, Surrey, she was one of ten children of the Quaker company director and stockbroker John Taylor (d. 1894) and his wife, Mary Jane Cash (d. 1887).

[3] She and her sister Margaret were educated privately in Germany, and Elizabeth then attended North London Collegiate School from 1874 to 1876.

[4] On a visit to her aunt and uncle in Birmingham, she met George Cadbury, co-founder of the Bournville chocolate factory.

[3] They had six children together: Laurence John, George Norman, Elsie Dorothea, Egbert, Marion Janet, and Ursula.

Together with her husband, she participated in the reform of industrial working and living conditions through supporting the welfare, health and education of women and children in Bournville.

Along with Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Lady Aberdeen, Millicent Fawcett, and Mrs Corbett Ashby, she pressed for the inclusion of women's issues in the agenda of the Congress of Versailles.

[11] During and immediately following the First World War, Cadbury led local efforts to provide housing and schooling for young refugees from Serbia and Austria who came to Birmingham to escape conflict and poverty in their home countries.

[1] In national politics Cadbury's sympathies were similar to those usually associated with Christian socialism, and she was a pillar of the Liberal Party.

Her political platform was a reformist one: municipal action in housing improvement, a school health service, and equality of opportunity.

[2] The founder of the Hampstead Garden Suburb in 1904, Henrietta Barnett was inspired by a visit to Cadbury at Bournville Village.