
politician
English politician
Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet was an English politician and army officer who sat in the House of Commons in 1640. He fought for the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. The portrait he commissioned from John Souch of his first wife Magdalene, Lady Aston on her deathbed is in Manchester Art Gallery. He is known as an apologist for the Church of England.
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