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 John Frederick, 5th Baronet Sir John Frederick, 5th Baronet Sir John Frederick, 5th Baronet (1750–1825), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1807. Frederick was the son of Sir John Frederick, 4th Baronet of Burwood Park, Surrey and his wife Susanna Hudson. He was born on 18 March 1750, educated at Westminster School from 1760 to 1765 and at Trinity College, Oxford in 1767. From 1769 to 1772 he made the Grand Tour of Europe. In 1774 Frederick was returned as Member of Parliament for Newport, Cornwall in the interest of Humphry Morice. He married Mary Garth,