Edward Partington, 1st Baron Doverdale

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

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.

[2] He employed a thousand workers in his Charlestown Mill, 1 in 12 of the working population.

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