[Answer] 8. How sweet it is. This Brummie started what became a world-wide business in a small warehouse on Crooked Lane in the city's centre, where he manufactured cocoa and drinking chocolate. Who was he?

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...1. John Cadbury 2. Henry Rowntree 3. Joseph Fry 4. George Fox John Cadbury (1801-1889) was born in Birmingham, the scion of a wealthy Quaker family. As a Quaker he was barred from entering university, and also from becoming a doctor or a lawyer. As a pacifist, a military career was out of the question for him, so John turned his energies to business. After serving an apprenticeship as a tea dealer in Leeds, he went into business for himself in Birmingham. In 1831, he founded the company for which his name is now world-famous - Cadbury's. John retired in 1861 to devote more time to his social reform interests (he campaigned against the practice of sending small boys up into chimneys as sweeps and also formed the Animals Friend Society, which later morphed into the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). Two of John's sons, Richard and George, took over the business and moved it to a small village near Birmingham called Bournbrook. They renamed it Bournville and the Cadbury factory is still there, in its beautiful park-like grounds. Bournville, meanwhile, has been wholly absorbed by Birmingham and is now one of its major suburbs. Richard and George expanded the Cadbury product line to include chocolate bars and boxed chocolates. They also established day care on site for its workers and also built houses nearby for their employees. Evidently, Cadbury employees can eat all the chocolate they want on the job. I gather that the feeding frenzy for each new employee lasts for two or three days at most and diminishes rapidly after that. As Quakers, John Cadbury and his sons held strong temperance views, believing that alcohol was responsible for a wide range of social ills, especially poverty. They banned the use of alcohol in the district around their factory and the area has been 'dry' for well over 100 years, with no pubs, bars or liquor shops. In 2007, Tesco went down to defeat when the residents of Bournville launched a winning court case to prevent the supermarket giant from selling alcohol in its Bournville store. Both Joseph Fry and Henry Rowntree founded chocolate companies (Joseph in Bristol and Henry in York) and like John Cadbury, they were both Quakers. George Fox was the founder of the Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers), and there has been a Quaker meeting house on Bull Street in Birmingham since 1689 (the building that is there now is not the original, since it has been expanded and rebuilt several times. There are a lot of Quakers in Brum.)

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John Cadbury:

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