| AdminHistory | Throughout her lifetime Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury remained closely involved with the work of The Woodlands, a hospital referred to by Taylor Cadbury in her address entitled 'Hospitals' as the 'Crippled Children's Home', which was founded by her husband George Cadbury in 1909. In 1929 following the merger of the Birmingham Cripples Union and the Royal Orthopaedic and Spinal Hospital in 1925, Taylor Cadbury donated land to extend The Woodlands in order to develop a new Royal Orthopaedic Hospital on the site. Taylor Cadbury chaired the Hospital's House Committee and served as President of the Education Committee at the Woodlands until 1948, conducting regular visits to the hospital throughout her life. She also donated a nurses' lecture hall to the hospital and provided financial support for the extension of the Hospital's wards during the late 1930s and 1940s. Taylor Cadbury served as President of the United Hospitals in Birmingham which incorporated the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the Medical School at the University of Birmingham in Edgbaston and the city's General Hospital between 1941 and 1948. |