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
Edward Frederick (British Army officer) Edward Frederick (British Army officer) General Edward Frederick (23 June 1784 – 5 December 1866) was a British Army officer who was Commissary General of the Bombay Army. Frederick was the eldest son of Colonel Charles Frederick, nephew of Sir John Frederick, 4th Baronet MP. Edward's son Charles by his second wife, Mary, inherited the baronetcy as 7th baronet. His grandson, Sir Edward Frederick, 9th Baronet, was an Army officer and first-class cricketer. Frederick followed his father into the British East India Company. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1838 Coronation Honours.