Dame Geraldine Cadbury, DBE (née Southall; 29 June 1864 – 30 January 1941)[1] was a British Quaker, author, social and penal reformer.

[1] Geraldine Southall was born in Birmingham, the daughter of Alfred Southall (1838–1931), a chemist by trade and a temperance worker who taught a working men's adult school class, whilst her Irish mother, Anna Strangman Grubb (1841-1912), was a supporter of women's suffrage.

[1] The Greet Free Kindergarten in Birmingham was opened in a room supplied by Geraldine Cadbury in 1904 using staff from the Froebel college in Edgbaston.

[2] 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.

[1] In 1928, Geraldine helped design the second purpose-built juvenile court in England and over the next few years,[1] she was appointed to a number of prominent positions on Home Office Committees and International Associations, including; Geraldine Southall Cadbury travelled widely investigating juvenile justice provision in Europe, America, New Zealand and Australia.