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Ashton was born on 25 May 1665, at Bradway, in the parish of Norton, Derbyshire.
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Charles Ashton
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He was admitted to Queens" College, Cambridge, on 18 May 1682, took the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and on 30 April 1687 was elected to a fellowship. After serving for a time as chaplain to Bishop Simon Patrick, he was presented on 10 March 1698-1699 to the living of Rattenden in Essex, which he exchanged in the following June for a chaplainship at Chelsea Hospital. On 3 July 1701 he was collated to a prebendal stall in Ely Cathedral, and was elected on the next day to the mastership of Jesus College, Cambridge, both offices being vacant by the death of William Saywell.
In the same year he took the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and in 1702 was elected vice-chancellor of the university.
Aston"s life was scholarly, and he seldom left Cambridge, except to go to Ely. He died in March 1752, at the age of 87, and was buried in the college chapel.
