Miles Ralph Partington junior
Miles Ralph Partington junior, d.1906
Miles Ralph Partington junior was born in 1856 and educated at St Asaph Grammar School. He then joined his father’s accountancy and estate agency business.
He was secretary to the St Asaph Gas Company, which provided gas for lighting. His father, who shared his name, had been one of the moving forces behind the formation of that company and a similar one for Rhyl.
For 20 years, Miles junior audited the accounts of the North Wales Counties Lunatic Asylum in Denbigh, a task previously performed by his dad.
He had an excellent tenor voice and was a lay clerk at St Asaph Cathedral. In this, he again followed in his father’s footsteps. Miles senior had become the cathedral’s tenor lay clerk in 1883, replacing the late John Morris Powell (whose sons wrote the First World War hit song “Pack up your troubles”).
Miles senior died on 26 November 1905, aged 77, and was buried in St Asaph Cemetery. His wife, Mary Anne Partington, died less than a month later, aged 83.
Their son, Miles junior, who lived with them at Bronwylfa Square, was to live just a few more months. He died on 20 March 1906 after an illness, during which he was nursed by his sister.
On the same day the cathedral choir also lost its alto lay clerk, Charles Tomkinson, who is buried near Miles.