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OBITUARY NOTICES James Ashton

We regret to record the death of Mr. James Ashton, a t Knowle, Warwickshire, on 19th November, 1939, a t the age of 75. Mr. Aahton’s death closes a remarkable career in the calico printing industry ranging from the technical control of one of the most progressive works of its kind in the world, to Director of the Calico Printers’ Association Ltd., and finally to the control for many years of the Association’s China branch, a t Shanghai.

James Ashton was born at Romiley, Cheshire, and was educated privately and a t Bowden College. Subsequently, he studied chemistry and allied subjects under Schorlemmer a t Owens College, Manchester, and then proceeded to Mulhouse in order to make a special study of the methods used in that well-known centre of the calico printing industry; in particular, he was especially interested in developments relating to Turkey Red dyeing and methods of obtaining white and coloured discharges on such dyeings. In due course, he returned to England and took over the technical control of his father’s works, viz. F. W. Ashton & Co. Ltd., Newton Bank Print Works, Hyde, Cheshire. The original works had been establighed in 1814 by Benjamin Ashton. Aocording to tradition, the Ashtons of Hyde

were a junior branch of the Ashtons of Stoney Middleton, who, themselves, were a junior branch of the Ashtom of Ashton-under-Lyne; they have been settled in north-east Cheshire since the days of Queen Elizabeth. In 1820, Benjamin had, as partners, his brothers Thomas, James and John, under the style of Benjamin Abhton & Bros. Thomas retired in 1821 and Benjamin and James in 1830, when John was joined by his brother Robert. In those days, about 100,000 pieces, of 24 yd. each, were produced per annum by block printing, chiefly in small black, purple and chocolate objects, and purple pads. John Ashton, who lived where t,be Queen’s Hotel. Manahestcr, now stands, died in 1846, and the works descended to his brother Robert, who was a well-known public man in Manchester and, with his brother Thomas (grandfather of Lord Ashton of Hyde), a prominent member of various political organisations. Robert Ashton died in the year of the discovery by Perkin of the first synthetic dye, i.e. in 1856, and the works were taken over by his nephew, F. W. Ashton, of Park Hall, Hayfield, whose eldest son, James, is the subject of the present notice.

When James Ashton took over control a t the Hyde works, the late Mr. J. B. Davenport,,