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
Edward Frederick Crippin Surrey. Edward Frederick Crippin Edward Frederick Crippin (17 May 1848 – 3 February 1892) was an English businessman. Crippin was born at 13 Tonman Street, Manchester, Lancashire. His father William Crippin (1815–1879) was a coal agent and his mother Sarah Crippin (née Brettargh) (1815–1874) was a housewife. He eventually took over his father's business, Bryn Hall Colliery, Bryn, Ashton-in-Makerfield, near Wigan. Crippen was a successful businessman who never married. On 22 August 1890 in Wigan, Crippen was involved in what "The Wigan Observer And District Advertiser" described as an "Exciting Scene in Wallgate": Bryn Hall at Ashton in Makerfield was