Ernest was born on 16 December 1867, the son of William Theodore Doxford and Margaret Wilkinson, in Sunderland, County Durham. He was educated at Durham School, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He served in the engineering department of the firm and became manager in 1882. He married Bertha Eleanor Warner in 1892. He became a director in the firm in 1899.
Something like a sensation was caused by the announcement in 1919 that Doxfords had been purchased by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, and that Mr. A. Ernest Doxford had retired from active participation in the business of the firm. The name of Doxford had for so long been synonymous with shipbuilding at Sunderland that the announcement created sad misgivings, but there was corresponding relief when it was known that the name of the famous concern at Pallion, was to remain unchanged and it's progressive policy continued.
The Times, Thursday, Dec 2, 1937 DEATHS:
DOXFORD - On Nov, 30, 1937 at Newby Wiske, Northallerton, Albert Ernest Doxford. Funeral, 3 p.m., tomorrow (Friday), at St. Andrew's Church, South Otterington.
Albert Ernest Doxford bought Newby Wiske estate from the Rutson family in 1921.
The property underwent a programme of modernisation with electricity and central heating installed. Doxford also added some personal touches to the house, some of which remain to this day. Beneath the cantilever staircase remains a working circular radiator which the Doxford family had obtained from one of their ships and is still operational today.
Two ornamental lions Doxford bought with him from his former home, Grindon Hall near Sunderland still stand guard outside the main entrance. One bearing the scars of being dropped on arrival at Newby Wiske.
In 1935 a pair of Cypress trees were planted outside the front entrance to mark the silver jubilee of King George V. The trees were cut down in 2005 following storms.
Following Doxford’s death in 1937 his wife continued to run the estate until it was purchased by the Home Office in 1949 for £13,000.
The hall was reconstructed and opened as a district police training centre in 1954. During the late 1950s the original grounds were transformed into playing fields with most of the work being undertaken by prisoners from Northallerton jail.
The hall and its grounds were transferred to North Yorkshire Police in 1976 as the new Force Headquarters. After alterations and additions, members of police staff took up occupancy on 26 September 1977. Newby Wiske Hall was officially opened as North Yorkshire Police Headquarters on 21 October 1977 by her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant, The Marquis of Normanby.
North Yorkshire Police sold the building in early 2017 to a children’s holiday company and moved to its new headquarters, Alverton Court in Northallerton town centre.
Something like a sensation was caused by the announcement in 1919 that Doxfords had been purchased by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, and that Mr. A. Ernest Doxford had retired from active participation in the business of the firm. The name of Doxford had for so long been synonymous with shipbuilding at Sunderland that the announcement created sad misgivings, but there was corresponding relief when it was known that the name of the famous concern at Pallion, was to remain unchanged and it's progressive policy continued.
The Times, Thursday, Dec 2, 1937 DEATHS:
DOXFORD - On Nov, 30, 1937 at Newby Wiske, Northallerton, Albert Ernest Doxford. Funeral, 3 p.m., tomorrow (Friday), at St. Andrew's Church, South Otterington.
Albert Ernest Doxford bought Newby Wiske estate from the Rutson family in 1921.
The property underwent a programme of modernisation with electricity and central heating installed. Doxford also added some personal touches to the house, some of which remain to this day. Beneath the cantilever staircase remains a working circular radiator which the Doxford family had obtained from one of their ships and is still operational today.
Two ornamental lions Doxford bought with him from his former home, Grindon Hall near Sunderland still stand guard outside the main entrance. One bearing the scars of being dropped on arrival at Newby Wiske.
In 1935 a pair of Cypress trees were planted outside the front entrance to mark the silver jubilee of King George V. The trees were cut down in 2005 following storms.
Following Doxford’s death in 1937 his wife continued to run the estate until it was purchased by the Home Office in 1949 for £13,000.
The hall was reconstructed and opened as a district police training centre in 1954. During the late 1950s the original grounds were transformed into playing fields with most of the work being undertaken by prisoners from Northallerton jail.
The hall and its grounds were transferred to North Yorkshire Police in 1976 as the new Force Headquarters. After alterations and additions, members of police staff took up occupancy on 26 September 1977. Newby Wiske Hall was officially opened as North Yorkshire Police Headquarters on 21 October 1977 by her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant, The Marquis of Normanby.
North Yorkshire Police sold the building in early 2017 to a children’s holiday company and moved to its new headquarters, Alverton Court in Northallerton town centre.
Ernest was born on 16 December 1867, the son of William Theodore Doxford and Margaret Wilkinson, in Sunderland, County Durham. He was educated at Durham School, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He served in the engineering department of the firm and became manager in 1882. He married Bertha Eleanor Warner in 1892. He became a director in the firm in 1899.
Something like a sensation was caused by the announcement in 1919 that Doxfords had been purchased by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, and that Mr. A. Ernest Doxford had retired from active participation in the business of the firm. The name of Doxford had for so long been synonymous with shipbuilding at Sunderland that the announcement created sad misgivings, but there was corresponding relief when it was known that the name of the famous concern at Pallion, was to remain unchanged and it's progressive policy continued.
The Times, Thursday, Dec 2, 1937 DEATHS:
DOXFORD - On Nov, 30, 1937 at Newby Wiske, Northallerton, Albert Ernest Doxford. Funeral, 3 p.m., tomorrow (Friday), at St. Andrew's Church, South Otterington.
Albert Ernest Doxford bought Newby Wiske estate from the Rutson family in 1921.
The property underwent a programme of modernisation with electricity and central heating installed. Doxford also added some personal touches to the house, some of which remain to this day. Beneath the cantilever staircase remains a working circular radiator which the Doxford family had obtained from one of their ships and is still operational today.
Two ornamental lions Doxford bought with him from his former home, Grindon Hall near Sunderland still stand guard outside the main entrance. One bearing the scars of being dropped on arrival at Newby Wiske.
In 1935 a pair of Cypress trees were planted outside the front entrance to mark the silver jubilee of King George V. The trees were cut down in 2005 following storms.
Following Doxford’s death in 1937 his wife continued to run the estate until it was purchased by the Home Office in 1949 for £13,000.
The hall was reconstructed and opened as a district police training centre in 1954. During the late 1950s the original grounds were transformed into playing fields with most of the work being undertaken by prisoners from Northallerton jail.
The hall and its grounds were transferred to North Yorkshire Police in 1976 as the new Force Headquarters. After alterations and additions, members of police staff took up occupancy on 26 September 1977. Newby Wiske Hall was officially opened as North Yorkshire Police Headquarters on 21 October 1977 by her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant, The Marquis of Normanby.
North Yorkshire Police sold the building in early 2017 to a children’s holiday company and moved to its new headquarters, Alverton Court in Northallerton town centre.
Something like a sensation was caused by the announcement in 1919 that Doxfords had been purchased by the Northumberland Shipbuilding Company, and that Mr. A. Ernest Doxford had retired from active participation in the business of the firm. The name of Doxford had for so long been synonymous with shipbuilding at Sunderland that the announcement created sad misgivings, but there was corresponding relief when it was known that the name of the famous concern at Pallion, was to remain unchanged and it's progressive policy continued.
The Times, Thursday, Dec 2, 1937 DEATHS:
DOXFORD - On Nov, 30, 1937 at Newby Wiske, Northallerton, Albert Ernest Doxford. Funeral, 3 p.m., tomorrow (Friday), at St. Andrew's Church, South Otterington.
Albert Ernest Doxford bought Newby Wiske estate from the Rutson family in 1921.
The property underwent a programme of modernisation with electricity and central heating installed. Doxford also added some personal touches to the house, some of which remain to this day. Beneath the cantilever staircase remains a working circular radiator which the Doxford family had obtained from one of their ships and is still operational today.
Two ornamental lions Doxford bought with him from his former home, Grindon Hall near Sunderland still stand guard outside the main entrance. One bearing the scars of being dropped on arrival at Newby Wiske.
In 1935 a pair of Cypress trees were planted outside the front entrance to mark the silver jubilee of King George V. The trees were cut down in 2005 following storms.
Following Doxford’s death in 1937 his wife continued to run the estate until it was purchased by the Home Office in 1949 for £13,000.
The hall was reconstructed and opened as a district police training centre in 1954. During the late 1950s the original grounds were transformed into playing fields with most of the work being undertaken by prisoners from Northallerton jail.
The hall and its grounds were transferred to North Yorkshire Police in 1976 as the new Force Headquarters. After alterations and additions, members of police staff took up occupancy on 26 September 1977. Newby Wiske Hall was officially opened as North Yorkshire Police Headquarters on 21 October 1977 by her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant, The Marquis of Normanby.
North Yorkshire Police sold the building in early 2017 to a children’s holiday company and moved to its new headquarters, Alverton Court in Northallerton town centre.
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