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ASHLY, LORD; b.; at school Michaelmas 1664 - Jun 1665 (Busby’s Account Book); a boarder. [Russell Barker and Stenning conjecture that this entry may possibly have been intended to refer to ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, 2ND EARL OF SHAFTESBURY, b. 16 Jan 1652, whose father of the same name had been created Baron Ashley on 20 Apr 1661 and who was to be created Earl of Shaftesbury on 23 Apr 1672].

ASHTON, ---; b.; in school list 1740.

ASHTON, ---; b.; in school list 1744.

ASHTON, DAVID; b.; in school lists 1736, 1737.

ASHTON, EDWARD; b.; in school list 1736.

ASHTON, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 11) Sep 1733; left 1737.

ASHTON, JAMES, son of James Ashton, Woodford, Essex; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1739.

ASHTON, JAMES, son of Aaron Ashton, London, wigmaker; b.; adm. (aged 9) Feb 1736/7; BB 1741-5; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 30 Oct 1744, matr. 1745; found dead in his rooms at Cambridge on the evening of 9 Mar 1745/6, under circumstances which seemed to point to foul play; is described in the register of All Saints, Cambridge, where he was buried, as “James Ashton, scholar, murdered”.

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.