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b. 29 Sept. 1600, 1st s. of John Aston of Aston, and Maud, da. of Robert Needham of Shavington Hall, Adderley, Salop.Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. pt. 2, pp. 724, 727; CB. educ. Macclesfield g.s.;VCH Cheshire, iii. 237. Brasenose, Oxf. 28 Mar. 1617, BA 8 July 1619;Al. Ox. L. Inn 12 Feb. 1620.LI Admiss. i. 184. m. (1) 4 July 1627, Magdalene (d. 2 June 1635), da. and coh. of Sir John Poulteney of Misterton, Leics. 2s. 2da. d.v.p.; (2) 1639, Anne (d. 2 June 1688), da. and coh. of Sir Henry Willoughby, 1st bt. of Risley, Derbys., wid. of Anchitel Grey, 1s. 2da.Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. pt. 2, p. 724; CB; Mems. St Margaret’s Westminster, 335. suc. fa. 13 May 1615;Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. pt. 2, p. 724. cr. bt. 25 July 1628.CB. d. 24 Mar. 1646.Ormerod, Cheshire, iii. pt. 2, p. 725.
Offices Held

Local: commr. Forced Loan, Cheshire 1627.C193/12/2, f. 6v. Sheriff, 5 Nov. 1634–5.List of Sheriffs (L. and I. ix), 18. J.p. 12 July 1637–11 Nov. 1644.C231/5, p. 255; Cheshire RO, DAR/I/29. Commr. array (roy.), 16 June, 10 Oct. 1642.Northants. RO, FH133; Cheshire RO, DLT/B11, pp. 76, 83.

Central: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, 26 Apr. 1637–?d.LC3/1, f. 25; LC5/134, p. 170.

Military: col. of horse (royalist) by Oct. 1642–5;Mems. of Prince Rupert, 69; R. Hutton, Royalist War Effort (1982), 23, 28; P. Young, Edgehill (1995 edn.), 206. col. of dragoons, 16 Jan. 1643–?Harl. 6852, f. 2. Sjt.-maj. gen. of horse, Nov. 1642–?Add. 36913, ff. 84v-85; Cheshire RO, ZCR 67/12/1.

Civic: freeman, Liverpool ?-d. Chandler, Liverpool, 329.

: 1st bt. (1600-46), of Aston, Cheshire. 1600 – 46.
Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, family group at his wife’s deathbed, J. Souch, 1635;Manchester Art Gallery. ?oil on panel, G. van Honthorst.Sold Sotheby’s, London, 8 Dec. 2011.

Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

ASTON, Sir Thomas, 1st bt. (1600-46), of Aston, Cheshire.

Will
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Estates
in 1615, inherited manors of Aston, Middle Aston and Keckwick; capital messuage of Aston Hall; property in Aston, Middle Aston, Frodsham, Keckwick, Kingsley, Newton and Sutton; and in reversion (after d. of his grandmo.) capital messuage of Hulgrave Hall, and lands in Church Minshull, Leighton and Minshull Vernon, Cheshire.Cheshire IPM ed. R. Stewart-Brown (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. lxxxiv), 13-15. In 1625, assessed at £10 for the privy seal loan.Cheshire RO, DLT/B/11, p. 12. In 1628, estate estimated to be worth no more than £500 p.a.M.D.G. Wanklyn, ‘Landed Society and Allegiance in Cheshire and Shropshire in the First Civil War’ (Manchester Univ. PhD thesis, 1976), 95. In 1636, estate inc. demesne lands and tenements in Aston; manors and demesne lands of Keckwick and Hulgrave; and demesne lands in Ferny Lees, nr. Hulgrave, Cheshire.Liverpool RO, 920 MD 171. At his d. estate was reckoned to be worth about £600 p.a. and inc. manors of Aston, Middle Aston and Keckwick, Hulgrave Hall and property in Church Minshall, Kingsley, Leighton, Minshall Vernon, Newton and Sutton, Cheshire.C8/267/122; Wanklyn, ‘Landed Society’, 390.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Falcon court ‘over against St Dunstan’s in Fleet Street’ (1641) ‘Mr Garland’s house in Holborn’ (1641) ‘Mr Brownlow’s house in Holborn over against the White Cross’ (1641).Add. 36914, ff. 198v, 200v, 207v, 209v, 217v, 221v.
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