Background
Baptised at Street Anne"s Church, Soho on 29 March 1739, he was the eldest surviving son of the Rt Revd Sir William Ashburnham, 4th Baronet, Bishop of Chichester and his wife Margaret Pelham, daughter of Thomas Pelham.
Baptised at Street Anne"s Church, Soho on 29 March 1739, he was the eldest surviving son of the Rt Revd Sir William Ashburnham, 4th Baronet, Bishop of Chichester and his wife Margaret Pelham, daughter of Thomas Pelham.
Ashburnham was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
He succeeded his father as baronet in 1797. Ashburnham was appointed Deputy Keeper of the Great Wardrobe in 1765, a post held until 1782. He was High Sheriff of Sussex in 1803.
Ashburnham died aged 84 at his residence Broomham Place in Guestling and was buried at Broomham in Sussex.
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He entered the British House of Commons in 1761, sitting as a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Hastings until 1774.