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Thomas Ashton, 2nd Baron Ashton of Hyde
British Baron

Thomas Ashton, 2nd Baron Ashton of Hyde

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British Baron
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Age
81 years
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Father:
Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde
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Biography

Thomas Henry Raymond Ashton, 2nd Baron Ashton of Hyde JP DL (2 October 1901 – 21 March 1983). The son of Thomas Gair Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde and Eva Margaret James. He succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Ashton of Hyde on the latter's death on 1 May 1933. On his death in 1983 he was succeeded in the barony by his son.

Education

He attended Eton College, and New College, Oxford.

Career

He gained the rank of Major with the 1st Royal Gloucestershire Hussars. He held the office of Justice of the Peace for Gloucestershire in 1944, and was Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire in 1957.

Family

He married Marjorie Nell Brooks (1901-1993), daughter of Hon. Marshall Jones Brooks and Florence Thomas, on 10 June 1925, and had issue:

  • Thomas John Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde (1926–2008)
  • Susan Ashton (b. 1931), died in infancy
  • Hon. Judith Marjorie Ashton (1934–1943)
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