Edward Partington, 1st Baron Doverdale

Edward Partington (1836 - 1925) was an English industrialist.

Partington was born in Bury, England 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 sulphite 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. 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 made a Baron in 1917.cite book|last=Birch|first=A.H.|title=Small Town Politics, A Study of Political Life in Glossop|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=1959|pages=8-38|chapter=2|accessdate=June 2008] Partington died on 5 January, 1925. [10 July 2008 [http://www.thepeerage.com/p23346.htm|Peerage.com] Person Page 23346]

; See List_of_mills_in_Longdendale_and_Glossopdale

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