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 Hall, 1st Baronet the First World War he raised 17 batteries of artillery and commanded the Camberwell Gun Brigade. He was awarded the DSO and invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 New Year Honours. He was made a baronet in 1923. He married in 1892, and had four children, including his son Frederick Henry Hall, who succeeded him to the baronetcy. He died at Hyde Park Gardens and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. Sir Frederick Hall, 1st Baronet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Hall, 1st Baronet, (7 October 1864 – 28 April 1932) was a