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Ashton, John, d. 1584
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d. 1584
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ASHTON, JOHN, second son of Sir Richard Ashton, Kt, Middleton, Lancs., and his first wife Mary, dau. of Sir John Byron, Kt., Ryton, Yorks.; b.; at school under Nowell (a draft letter from Nowell recommending him to the Master of Trinity Coll. Cambridge is among the Brasenose MSS (31, f. 36a) now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens., matr. 1547; BA 1549/50; MA 1553; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1551, Major Fellow 1560 – c. 1561; ordained deacon (Ely) 7 Jul 1560, priest (London) 24 Aug 1560, aged 36; Rector of Middleton, Lancs., from 1559; m.; buried 8 Oct 1584.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.