ASSHETON (ASHTON), Edmund (c.1643-95), of Chadderton, Lancs.

Family and Education

b. c. 1643, 1st s. of James Assheton of Chadderton by Catherine, da. of John Greenhalgh of Brandlesholme, Lancs. educ. G. Inn, entered 1659; St. Edmund Hall, Oxf. 1660. unm. suc. fa. 1651.Vis. Lancs. (Chetham Soc. lxxxiv), 18; VCH Lancs. v. 117.

Offices Held

J.p. Lancs. 1665 – Apr. 1688, Mdx. and Westminster 1687 – Apr. 1688; commr. for assessment, Lancs. 1667 – 69, 1689 – 90; freeman, Preston 1682.W. S. Weeks, Clitheroe in 17th Cent. 239; Preston Guild Rolls (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 180.

Capt. of ft., regt. of Sir Allen Apsley June – Aug. 1667; maj. King’s 1 Gds. 1673, lt.-col. 1684–90.CSP Dom. 1667, p. 181; 1673, pp. 97, 196, 462; 1685, p. 5; Cal. Treas. Bks. ix. 517–18.

Corporal, yeoman of the guard 1668 – 72; gent. of the bedchamber to the Duke of York 1672–?85.Peek, Curialia, iii. 50; Bulstrode, 237.

Parlimentarian

ASSHETON (ASHTON), Edmund (c.1643-95), of Chadderton, Lancs.

Main residence: Chadderton, Lancs.

Author

I.C.

Volume

Commons 1660-1690

Web Title

ASSHETON (ASHTON), Edmund (c.1643-95)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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