Background
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.
politician Member of the House of Lords
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.
He attended Eton College, and New College, Oxford.
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. Marshall Jones Brookes 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 Honorary
Judith Marjorie Ashton (1934–1943).