Ashton, Thomas (3)
Ashton, Thomas (1)
an English clergyman, was born at Tenerdly, Lancashire,. in 1631, and was educated at Oxford, where he took his degree of A.B. Feb. 7, 1650. He was chosen fellow of this college and took holy orders. He was appointed to preach at St. Mary’s July 25, 1654; -and his sermon proved so very indecent that he came very near being expelled. He was finally obliged to quit his fellowship. In 1656 he was intrusted with a commission from the protector to be chaplain to the English forces in the Island of Jersey. He died soon after. His publications were not very important..
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Ashton, Thomas (2)
an English divine, was born in 1716, and educated at Eton and at Kin.’s College, Cambridge. He was tutor to the earl of Plymouth in 1740. Soon after this date he was presented to the rectory of Aldingham, in Lancashire, which he resigned early in 1749. On May 3 of that year he was presented to the rectory of Sturminster-Marshall, in Dorsetshire. In 1752 he was collated to the rectory of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate; and in May, 1762, was elected preacher at Lincoln’s Inn, which he resigned in 1764. He died March 1,1775. He published a number of single Sermons (1745-70):-some Letters and Pamphlets on the question of electing aliens into the vacant places in Eton College (1771). See Chalmers, Biog.’ Dict. s.v.; Allibone Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.
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Ashton, Thomas (3)
an English Wesleyan minister, was born in London in 1768. He feared God from his youth, and received his first ticket of membership from Wesley. He entered the ministry in 1801; continued therein until 1837, when he settled in Bath, where he died, May 18, 1854., See Minutes of British Conference, 1854.