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Edward Partington, 1st Baron Doverdale (28 September 1836 – 5 January 1925) was an English industrialist.
Partington was born in 
He died suddenly a few hours after visiting his mills one afternoon in 1925.
Bury, Greater Manchester
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, the son of Sarah Partington and David Livsey, a blacksmith, and arrived in Glossop
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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 sulfite process The sulfite process produces wood pulp that is almost pure cellulose fibers by treating wood chips with solutions of sulfite and bisulfite ions. These chemicals cleave the bonds between the cellulose and lignin components of the lignocellulose. A ...
. He expanded rapidly with mills in Salford and Barrow in Furness
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. He merged with Kellner Kellner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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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 Liberal
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. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire. He was made a Baron in the 1916 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours
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, being created Baron Doverdale, ''of Westwood Park in the County of Worcester
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'' on 6 January 1917.
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