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Clothing manufacturer and retailer. Known for. Founder of Burton Menswear. Spouse. Sophia Amelia Marks. Children. 3 sons and 1 daughter. Sir Montague Maurice Burton (15 August 1885 – 21 September 1952) was the founder of Burton Menswear, one of Britain's largest chains of clothes shops. Burton's factory, Hudson Road, Leeds LS9.
By 1904, he had adopted the name of Morris Burton and opened a small clothing shop in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. By 1908, when he had settled on the forenames Maurice Montague, he had opened a second shop in Mansfield and a clothing factory in Leeds. The following year, he married Sophia Amelia Marks, daughter of a Worksop furniture dealer.
Jan 28, 2017 · Sir Montague Burton, who had been knighted in 1931, died in 1952, when there were 616 Burton branches. In 1953 the firm merged with Jackson the Tailor. Lionel and Sidney Jacobson (sons of the founder of Jacksons) took over the management of the company and refurbished the shops, starting with the Newcastle branch.
Sir Montague Maurice Burton (15 August 1885, Lithuania - 21 September 1952, Leeds) founded Burton, one of Great Britain's largest chains of clothes shops. Born a Lithuanian Jew (Moshe Osinsky) in Kovno province, he came alone to England in 1900 aged 15. In 1901, he was staying in Cheetham, Manchester. He started as a peddler, then set up as a ...
Aug 4, 2021 · Sir Montague Maurice Burton by Elliott & Fry, bromide print, 1949 NPG x86557. National Portrait Gallery. Montague Burton’s first excursion into educational philanthropy came with the endowment of chairs in industrial relations at Leeds, Cardiff and Cambridge in the late 1920s. He was knighted for services to industrial relations in 1931.
Sir Montagu Maurice Burton was born Meshe David Osinsky in Lithuania in 1885. He travelled alone to England in 1900 to escape the Russian pogroms. Although he was a well educated young man, he arrived in the country unable to speak English. Burton promoted himself as The Tailor of Taste. In 1901, he began peddling goods around the Cheetham Hill ...
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Jul 5, 2005 · When Sir Montague Burton died in 1952, his empire covered 600 shops and 14 factories and was clothing one in four men in Britain. After World War II, Burton was a major supplier of de-mob suits.
