Percy Claude M. Ash
Percy Claude Matchwick Ash (1875-1937) of Claudius Ash, Sons and Co and Amalgamated Dental Co
1875 Birth registered in Pancras, London[1]
1881 Living in Hampstead with Claudius J. Ash 33, Alice E. Ash 29, Alice E. Ash 4, Berkeley N. Ash 2, Dorothea Ash[2]
1908 Married Edith Furneaux in Paddington[3]
1911 Director of a public company, living in Hampstead with Winifred G Ash 31[4]
WWI Served in the 8th London Regiment, rank of Major[5]
1925 Claudius Ash Sons & Co., Ltd., and Percy Claude Matchwick Ash applied for the restoration of the patent granted to them for an invention entitled An improvement relating to artificial teeth" numbered 18188 of 1913, and bearing date the 9th day of August, 1913, which expired on the 9th day of August, 1917[6]
1937 In Woodbridge when he died; buried in Northwood[7]
1937 Obituary [8]
PERCY CLAUDE M. ASH Mr. Percy Claude M. Ash, died on July 20, 1937.
He was the eldest son of the late Mr. Claudius James Ash and the great-grandson of Claudius Ash, the founder, in 1820, of the business which in later years was known as Claudius Ash, Sons & Company, Ltd. He was connected with the business for about forty-three years, becoming a Joint-Managing Director in 1905, when it was converted into a public Company.
He was actively engaged in the development of the business until the outbreak of war in 1914, when, as Captain and later as Major in the Post Office Rifles, he served in France. He was severely wounded, being shot through one lung, and was invalided for nearly two years. A recent X-ray disclosed that shrapnel had remained in the lung ever since, and this may account for the fact that he never really recovered robust health.
When convalescent he returned to the business, and in 1925, on the amalgamation of the Company with de Trey & Company, Ltd., he was appointed a Joint-Managing Director of the new Company. The office of Managing Director was subsequently abolished, but he continued to be actively associated with the Company until the end of 1934, since when he held an advisory position on the Board. Mr. Ash was elected a Member of the Institute in 1912.