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MS 466 - Cadbury Collection - 16th cent. - 20th cent.
- 1 - Family papers - 1727 - 1977
  - 1 - Papers relating to Dame Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury (1858-1951) - 1842 - 1960
    - 12 - Papers relating to Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's campaign to be elected the Liberal Party Member of Parliament for King's Norton - 1923 - 1924
      - 1 - Correspondence relating to Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's election campaign - August 1923-December 1923

Ref No	MS 466/1/1/12/1/5
Finding Number	MS 466/154/5
Title	Letter from Herbert G. Wood to Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury
Level	Item
Date	19 November 1923
Description	In this letter Wood remarks that he was 'deeply interested' in Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's candidature 'on personal grounds'. However, he comments that he had more faith in Ramsay MacDonald than Herbert Asquith and other Liberal Party leaders, adding that he was prepared to support the Labour Party on some issues. Wood writes that he agreed with the Liberal party on 'the main issues' of the election and suggests that he intended to support Taylor Cadbury and 'follow the course which friendship prompts me to take'.
Extent	1
Format	Item
Related Material	Biographical information about Herbert George Wood taken from Thomas C. Kennedy, 'Wood, Herbert George (1879-1963)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/65076] accessed 23rd March 2009. Biographical information about Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury and H. G. Wood taken from Richenda Scott, 'Elizabeth Cadbury: 1858-1951' (London: Harrap, 1955), p. 139 and p. 157.
Access Status	Open
AdminHistory	Herbert George Wood (1879-1963) came to Woodbrooke College in Selly Oak as a teacher of New Testament and early Christian theology in 1904. George and Elizabeth Cadbury founded the Woodbrooke settlement in 1903 when they gave the house and grounds of Woodbrooke, their family home from 1888-1994, for the establishment of a residential Quaker college. In 1918, following the resignation of Rendel Harris, Wood was appointed as Director of Studies at Woodbrooke, formally becoming a member of the Society of Friends in 1923. Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury remained closely associated with activities at Woodbrooke throughout her life.
Language	English

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