Nicholas Ashton

(1742-1833)

LBT ID: NiAshto1833	B/BAP: 1742 DIED: 1833
SOURCES: The Sixth Volume of the Walpole Society (1918) 84; fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Of Woolton Hall, the son of John Ashton (d. 1759) he was a Liverpool merchant, owner of the Dungeon Saltworks, philanthropist, and friend and patron of William Roscoe.
REFERENCES TO Nicholas Ashton: Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter II. 1781-1787 Found 1: ¶ n1