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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.
Burton was knighted for his work in the interest of international peace in 1931 and an honorary doctorate from Leeds University in 1944. A major philanthropist, Burton not only endowed academic chairs, but supported a wide range of educational and charitable institutions in Britain and Palestine.
Apr 16, 2016 · Montague Burton was a Lithuanian Jew who fled pogroms in his country of birth to build one of the biggest clothing chains in Europe. ... became roughly equivalent to 850,000 men’s suits. That ...
Jan 28, 2017 · One year later, Burton & Burton was transformed into a limited liability company called Montague Burton, The Tailor of Taste Ltd. The man himself now assumed the name Montague Maurice Burton. By 1919 he had 36 shops, of which many (including Coventry, Dudley, Swansea and Wandsworth) had opened in the course of the war.
Jul 5, 2005 · Burton was knighted for his services to commerce and charity. When Sir Montague Burton died in 1952, his empire covered 600 shops and 14 factories and was clothing one in four men in Britain.
BURTON, SIR MONTAGUE (1885–1952), British industrialist and philanthropist. Born in Russia as Moishe Osinsky, Burton went to Leeds, England, as a young man and, after working as a tailor, founded a clothing factory in 1910. He soon became known as a pioneer of cheap, well-made men's clothes and established a chain of shops which was the ...
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In recognition of his concern for his employees and his philanthropic work, Osinsky-Burton was knighted in 1931. During World War II, the Burton company produced one quarter of all British military uniforms, and after the war the firm also sewed so-called demobilization suits – clothing collections for men returning to society after the war.
