Thomas Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde

Thomas John Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde (* November 19, 1926; † 2 August 2008) was a British banker and peer.

Life and career

Ashton was the eldest son of Thomas Ashton, 2nd Baron Ashton of Hyde and Marjorie Nell Brookes. He succeeded his father as Baron Ashton of Hyde, as he died on 21 March 1983.

He attended Eton College and New College, Oxford. He reached the rank of Major in the " Royal Gloucestershire Hussars ". The office of the Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire he thought of 1965 until 1968. He was director of the "Barclays Bank " from 1969 until 1987.

With the reform of the House of Lords in 1999, he retired from there as a member.

Family

Ashton married on March 18, 1957 Pauline Trewlove Brackenbury, daughter of Lt.- Col. Robert Henry Langton Brackenbury, and had four children with her.

Ashton died in August 2008; the title was passed on to the eldest son.

Swell

  • Obituary in The Times
  • Http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/people/mr-thomas-ashton-1
  • Baron ( Ashton of Hyde )
  • Member of the House of Lords
  • Banker
  • Politicians ( 20th century)
  • Briton
  • Born in 1926
  • Died in 2008
  • Man
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