Ernest Brotherton

• Birth date            Jan-March 1890
• Marriage              29 August 1919 to Edith, daughter of Albert Hutchinson at St Michael’s Flixton
• Death date          31 January 1941 at St Anne’s-on-the-Sea
• Burial                  4 February 1941 at Lytham Park Cemetery and Crematorium

Ernest Bretherton was born in 1890 the third child of Alfred Brotherton and his wife Clara (nee Matley) at Urmston. By 1911 he was employed as an architect’s assistant but enlisted in 1914 in the 42^nd Motor Ambulance Company of the Royal Army Medical Corps before transferring to the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1915. On his return to Manchester he joined his uncle’s practice, Matley and Mills and remained there for the rest of his career. In 1928 Ernest Brotherton, accepted the invitation to become a partner in the practice under the style Matley Brotherton and Mills. The firm continued in practice until the 1950s, although the identity of the other partners is not yet known.

Address
1919-1935    Ernest Bretherton AMSA, c/o W H Matley, Court Chambers, Old Millgate, Manchester
1936        Ernest Bretherton AMSA, Court Chambers, Old Millgate, Manchester

Residence
1941        “Shenstone,” 14 Sandringham-road St. Anne's-on-the-Sea. (probate)