- GB-2014-WSA-02345
- Person
- 1879-1937
Aston, John, son of the Rev. John Walter Aston, Vicar of Ambleside, Westmorland, by Constance Helena, daughter of William Hinkes Cox, of Wimbledon; b. Nov. 18, 1879; adm. from Harrow School Sept. 28, 1893 (R); Q.S. Sept. 27, 1894; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. (with Triplett) July 1898, matric. Michaelmas 1898; B.A. 1902; M.A. 1908; asst. master at Hill Side School, Godalming, 1902-6, and at St. Clare, Walmer, 1906-9, Head Master at St. Clare from 1910; served in France as 2nd Lieut. 12th Batt. East Surrey Regt. Sept. 1916 -July 1917; dangerously wounded near Hollebeke, July 27, 1917 and was discharged for wound Feb. 1918 and gazetted Lieut.; author of sketches of Christ Church, Oxford (1902) and other works; d. Jan. 12, 1937.