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
Charles Ashton (divine) Justin Martyr's "Apologiæ" prepared by Frederick Keller, fellow of Jesus College, from papers that Ashton left at his death: all Ashton's manuscripts had been bequeathed to Keller. Among the Cole MSS. in the British Library there are transcripts of some of Ashton's letters to Dean Robert Moss (vol. xxx.); of his additions to John Sherman's "History of Jesus College" (vol. xlii.); and of his "Collections relating to the University". In Edmund Chishull's "Antiquitates Asiaticæ" (1728), Ashton restored a corrupt inscription to Jupiter Urios. Charles Ashton (divine) Charles Ashton (1665 – 1752) was an English churchman and academic, Master of Jesus