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
Frederick Richard Pollock Frederick Richard Pollock Major-general Sir Frederick Richard Pollock KCMG (12 January 1827 - 24 December 1899) was a British army officer and administrator in British India and one of Henry Lawrence's "Young Men". Pollock was born in London, the sixth son of Sir Frederick Pollock, Bt. He was commissioned into the Bengal Army of the East India Company and served under Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence in the Punjab commission. He served as Assistant Commissioner of Kohat District from October 1849 to May 1851. In 1866 he was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Peshawar. He was granted the rank of Major General