Edward Partington, 1st Baron Doverdale

Edward Partington, 1st Baron Doverdale DL (28 September 1836 – 5 January 1925) was an English industrialist.^[1]

Edward Partington
1st Baron Doverdale
Predecessor	New creation
Other titles	Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire
Born	(1836-09-28)September 28, 1836 Bury, Greater Manchester, England
Died	January 5, 1925(1925-01-05) (aged 88)
Noble family	Partington
Father	David Livsey
Mother	Sarah Partington
Occupation	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 sulfite process. He expanded rapidly with mills in Salford and Barrow in Furness. He merged with Kellner of Vienna and was created Lord Doverdale in 1914. His factories in Charlestown created nearly a 1000 jobs.^[2] He employed a thousand workers in his Charlestown Mill, 1 in 12 of the working population. He was a Unitarian and a Liberal. He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire. He was made a Baron in the 1916 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours,^[2] being created Baron Doverdale, of Westwood Park in the County of Worcester on 6 January 1917.^[3]

Foundation stone of Partington Theatre in Glossop, laid by Edward

He died suddenly a few hours after visiting his mills one afternoon in 1925.^[4]