Spouse(s) Marjorie Nell Brookes Father Thomas Gair Ashton | Mother Eva Margaret James Name Thomas 2nd | |
Born 2 October 1901 ( 1901-10-02 ) Died 21 March 1983(1983-03-21) (aged 81) | ||
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.
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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:
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