Edward Partington, 1st Baron Doverdale (28 September 1836 – 5 January 1925) was an English industrialist. Partington was born in Bury, Greater Manchester, the son of Sarah Partington and David Livsey, a blacksmith, and arrived in Glossop in 1874. He, with his partner William Olive, bought the Turn Lee Mill from Thomas Hamer Ibbotson. He bought it to try out a modern method of paper manufacture using the

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. He expanded rapidly with mills in

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and Barrow in Furness. He merged with Kellner of

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and was created Lord Doverdale in 1914. His factories in Charlestown created nearly a 1000 jobs. He employed a thousand workers in his Charlestown Mill, 1 in 12 of the working population. He was a Unitarian and a

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. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire. He was made a Baron in the 1916 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours, being created Baron Doverdale, ''of Westwood Park in the

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'' on 6 January 1917. At Glossop 2023 37

He died suddenly a few hours after visiting his mills one afternoon in 1925.

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1836 births 1925 deaths Mill owners in Glossop English industrialists Deputy Lieutenants of Derbyshire People from Bury, Greater Manchester Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Barons created by George V {{UK-baron-stub