Frederick Ashton retirement in 1963, in the company known successively as the Vic-Wells Ballet, the Sadler's Wells Ballet and the Royal Ballet. He succeeded de Valois as director of the company, serving until his own retirement in 1970. Ashton is widely credited with the creation of a specifically English genre of ballet. Among his best-known works are "Façade" (1931), "Symphonic Variations" (1946), "Cinderella" (1948), "La fille mal gardée" (1960), "Monotones" I and II (1965), "Enigma Variations" (1968) and the feature film ballet "The Tales of Beatrix Potter" (1970). Ashton was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, the fourth of the five children of George
Sir Edward Frederick, 9th Baronet a single wicket. In 1913, Frederick married Edith Katherine Cortlandt, daughter of Colonel William Hutchinson Mulloy. They had two sons and a daughter. The younger son, Lieutenant John Christopher Frederick, was killed in action in 1943 in Tunisia. His surviving son, Major Charles Boscawen Frederick, inherited the baronetcy. Frederick's uncle John Frederick played first-class cricket for Oxford University, Hampshire, Middlesex and the Marylebone Cricket Club. Sir Edward Frederick, 9th Baronet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edward Boscawen Frederick, 9th Baronet, (29 June 1880 – 26 October 1956) was a British Army officer, first-class cricketer and courtier. Frederick was born at Loppington Hall, Shropshire.