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 Frederick Francis Baker, 2nd Baronet Sir Frederick Francis Baker, 2nd Baronet Sir Frederick Francis Baker, 2nd Baronet (1772–1830) was a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was the son of Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet, physician to George III, born 13 May 1772 in Westminster. Educated at Eton College, St John's College, Cambridge and Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1792, M.A. 1796), he was elected to the Royal Society in 1811. He died in a windmill accident near Hastings, on 1 October 1830. Baker married in 1814 Harriet Simeon, youngest daughter of Sir John Simeon, 1st Baronet. They had three sons: and a daughter Jane Maria,