| AdminHistory | Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's parents John and Mary Jane Taylor first lived at Elm Place in Peckham Rye, where Elizabeth Taylor was born in 1858. In 1863 the Taylors moved to a house called Sunbury in Peckham Rye. The Taylors were surrounded by relations including their parents and siblings and their children became closely interwoven into their kinship network, socialising with their large number of cousins. Elizabeth Taylor and her siblings were also encouraged to participate in their parents' charitable and philanthropic endeavours from an early age.
Following a brief period attending a Quaker day school, Elizabeth Taylor was educated by governesses at home in Peckham Rye. In 1872 Elizabeth and her elder sister Margaret (Pearlie) were sent overseas to a school in the German town of Meiningen. In autumn 1873 Margaret Taylor returned home to help the girls' mother with her new baby, Margaret's and Elizabeth's younger brother John Augustine, who was born in November 1873. Elizabeth remained at the school for a further year, returning home to England in July 1874. Following her return to England, in the autumn of 1874 Elizabeth Taylor entered the North London Collegiate School for Girls which she attended until 1876, under the leadership of the schools' founder and headmistress Frances Mary Buss (1827-1894). Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury attended the North London Collegiate School's centenary celebrations in 1950. |