Sir Arthur Ingram Aston (23 December 1798 – 5 May 1859) was an English diplomat.

Biography

Aston was born in London into a prominent landed family, the Astons of Aston Hall,

Aston-by-Sutton Aston (or Aston-by-Sutton) is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 111, reducing slightly to 106 at th ...

, Cheshire. He was the second son of Capt. Henry Charles Hervey-Aston and Hon. Harriet Ingram-Shepherd, fourth daughter of

Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount of Irvine Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount of Irvine (19 March 1727 – 27 June 1778), known as Charles Ingram until 1763, was a British landowner, politician and courtier. He succeeded his uncle to the Viscountcy and the Temple Newsam estate in Leeds in 1763. ...

. He was a great grandson of Hon. Rev. Dr. Henry Hervey, fifth son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, who assumed the Aston surname. He was educated at

Brasenose College, Oxford Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It began as Brasenose Hall in the 13th century, before being founded as a college in 1509. The library and chapel were added in the mi ...

. Aston served at the British embassies in Vienna in 1819 and in Rio de Janeiro in 1826. He was appointed secretary of the British embassy in Paris in 1833 and became envoy-extraordinary and plenipotentiary at Madrid from 1839 to 1843. He was created a

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one ...

(GCB) upon returning to England in 1843. He was High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1850–51. He died unmarried, at which point Aston Hall passed to a nephew.

References

1798 births 1859 deaths Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath 19th-century English people Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Spain {{UK-diplomat-stub