Dame Elizabeth Cadbury was unquestionably one of the remarkable women
of the day. Obituary notices in the daily papers have dwelt on her vitality. That is just. It was one of the characteristics which was bound to strike even the most casual acquaintance. And it was maintained to the end of her ninety-three years. Her sight had been defective for some time, and growing deafness was a serious handicap to one accustomed to have everything of importance read to her, but that affected her spirits not at all. Her activities, local, national and inter- national, were multifarious, but she will always be identified above all with the numerous beneficent activities to which the Cadbury family have always given such generous support in and around Birmingham—social work in Boumville Village, the Selly Oak group of colleges, the Birmingham United Hospital and much else. Very few lives have been better spent.
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