| 词条 | Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde |
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| name = The 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde | title = Thomas Ashton | image = Thomas Gair Ashton.jpg | image_size = 180px | caption = Ashton in 1895 | full name = Thomas Gair Ashton | spouse = Eva Margaret James | father = Thomas Ashton | mother = Elizabeth Gair | birth_date = {{Birth date|1855|2|5|df=y}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1933|5|1|1855|2|5|df=y}} |}} Thomas Gair Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde (5 February 1855 – 1 May 1933) was a British industrialist, philanthropist, Liberal politician, and peer. Early life and careerAshton was born at Fallowfield, Manchester, Lancashire, the son of Thomas Ashton (died 1898) and Elizabeth Gair, daughter of Samuel Stillman Gair of Rhode Island. The Ashton family had been prominent in the cotton and cloth manufacturing industry for many years. He was educated at Rugby and University College, Oxford, and later managed the family business. Ashton was elected to the House of Commons for Hyde in 1885, but lost his seat the following year. He unsuccessfully contested the same seat again in 1892, but in 1895 he was returned for Luton, seat he held until 1911. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Ashton of Hyde, in the County of Chester. During the First World War he served as Chairman of the Cotton Exports Committee. Apart from his political career Ashton was a Justice of the Peace for Cheshire and Sussex and was invested as an Honorary Fellow of Oxford University in 1923. FamilyTwo of Lord Ashton's sisters married Lupton brothers; Sir Charles Lupton to Katharine and Arthur Lupton to Harriet. Lord Ashton's first cousin, Helen Potter (née Leech), was the mother of Beatrix Potter.[1][2] The Lupton family are the paternal ancestors of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.[3] Ashton married Eva Margaret James, daughter of John Henry James and his wife Jane Ramsden Ashworth, in 1886. They had four children, two sons and two daughters:
DeathHe died in May 1933, aged 78, and was succeeded in the title by his second but eldest surviving son Thomas Henry Raymond Ashton. Lady Ashton of Hyde died in 1938. References
1. ^{{cite news |last1=Walker |first1=Tim |title=Duchess of Cambridge is related to Beatrix Potter |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/10980599/Kate-Middleton-is-related-to-Beatrix-Potter.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |page=8 |date=22 July 2014}} 2. ^{{cite web|last1=Reed|first1=Michael|title=Duchess of Cambridge not posh? Her ancestor was lord mayor of Leeds|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2013/apr/05/duchess-of-cambridge-kate-middleton-leeds|location=UK|work= Guardian |date= 5 April 2015|accessdate=1 January 2016|quote=Sir Charles Lupton, was lord mayor of Leeds, and the brother of Kate's great-great-grandfather Francis. His wife's brother was Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde (also a northerner).}} 3. ^{{cite web|last1=Rayner|first1=Gordon|title=How the family of 'commoner' Kate Middleton has been rubbing shoulders with royalty for a century|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10135251/How-the-family-of-commoner-Kate-Middleton-has-been-rubbing-shoulders-with-royalty-for-a-century.html|work=Daily Telegraph|location=UK |date= 23 June 2013|accessdate=16 December 2014}}
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| title = Member of Parliament for Hyde | years = 1885–1886 }}{{s-aft | after = Joseph Watson Sidebotham }}{{succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Luton | years = 1895–1911 | before = Samuel Whitbread | after = Cecil Harmsworth }}{{s-reg|uk}}{{s-new | creation }}{{s-ttl | title = Baron Ashton of Hyde | years = 1911–1933 }}{{s-aft | after = Thomas Ashton }}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ashton Of Hyde, Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron}} 13 : 1855 births|1933 deaths|Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom|People from Fallowfield|People educated at Rugby School|Alumni of University College, Oxford|Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|UK MPs 1885–86|UK MPs 1895–1900|UK MPs 1900–06|UK MPs 1906–10|Textile companies of the United Kingdom|Ashton family |
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