There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Aston, both in the

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. Both creations are extinct. The Aston Baronetcy, of Tixall in the County of Stafford, was created in the Baronetage of England on 22 May 1611 for Walter Aston of

Tixall Hall Tixall Gatehouse is a 16th-century gatehouse situated at Tixall, near Stafford, Staffordshire and is all that remains of Tixall Hall which was demolished in 1927. The gatehouse is a Grade I listed building. Tixall was used as a prison for Mary, ...

. He was later created

Lord Aston of Forfar Lord Aston of Forfar was a title in the Peerage of Scotland. The barony was created on 28 November 1627 for Sir Walter Aston, Bt, who had been previously created Baronet of Tixall Hall, Staffordshire (in the Baronetage of England) on 22 May 1611. ...

in 1627 with which the

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merged until its extinction in 1751. The Aston Baronetcy, of Aston in the County of Chester, was created in the Baronetage of England on 25 July 1628 for Thomas Aston,

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for

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. His great-grandson, the fourth Baronet sat for

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and

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in the

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. He died childless in 1744 and was succeeded by a son of the younger son of the second Baronet. The latter represented

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in the Parliament. After the death of his son, the sixth Baronet, the baronetcy became extinct in 1815. Their seat was 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 ...

, which was demolished in 1938.

Aston baronets, of Tixall (1611)

* see

Aston baronets, of Aston (1628)

* Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet (1600–1646) * Sir Willoughby Aston, 2nd Baronet (1640–1702) * Sir Thomas Aston, 3rd Baronet (1656–1725) *

Sir Thomas Aston, 4th Baronet Sir Thomas Aston, 4th Baronet (c. 1704–1744), of Aston-by-Sutton, Cheshire, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1729 to 1741. Aston was the only son of Sir Thomas Aston, 3rd Baronet and his wife Cat ...

(–1744) *

Sir Willoughby Aston, 5th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

(c. 1715–1772) * Sir Willoughby Aston, 6th Baronet (c. 1748–1815)

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