| Description | Following Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's death in December 1951, Sir Barry Jackson delivered a BBC radio broadcast paying tribute to her life and work.
In his tribute entitled 'My Neighbour', Jackson draws attention to the 'simple things to associate' with Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's 'world-famed' achievements. He refers to the 'vigour' and 'vitality' of his 'old friend and near neighbour', describing her 'freshness' and adventurous activities travelling around the country. Jackson remarks on Taylor Cadbury's involvement in public philanthropic work during her old age, as well as her exploits sledging in a snow blizzard and indulging in cold baths. Jackson states:
'Such genial and courageous beings as Dame Elizabeth are all too rare in this world. Bernard Shaw once told me that if there was an after life, Dame Elizabeth Cadbury was one of the very few people he would like to meet in it.'
Jackson concludes his tribute by remarking on Taylor Cadbury's 'impervious' nature, describing his memory of her at her home Wynd's Point in the Malvern Hills. |
| AdminHistory | Theatre director and philanthropist Sir Barry Jackson (1879-1961) was born in Northfield where Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury lived from 1895 until her death in 1951. Jackson later lived in Malvern near to the Cadbury family's Malvern home Wynd's Point. He formed a close friendship with Taylor Cadbury after meeting her during her visits to Malvern. Early in his career Jackson had been closely associated with John Drinkwater who wrote a number of masques for the Bournville Village Children's Festival. Jackson formed the Pilgrim Players with Drinkwater, an amateur company which laid the foundations of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in the early twentieth century. Jackson went on to manage the Repertory Theatre as well as a number of theatres in London, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford upon Avon and the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. |