Arthur Henry Southcote Aston (4 July 1875 – 30 May 1949) was an English barrister and judge in British India.
The son of Henry Faure Aston of the Indian Civil Service, and his wife Augusta Creed,[1] he was born in British India at Poona in July 1875.
[2] The following year Aston departed for British India, where he practiced as a barrister at Bombay.
[5] Aston spent a year in Sind as a public prosecutor and government pleader, before returning to Bombay in 1907 to take up the appointment of Chief Magistrate and Revenue Judge.
[6] In connection with the Khudiram Bose assassination attempt, Aston was singled out by W. T. Stead for criticism in 1909, for blocking the import of an issue of the London journal Swaraj that contained an article by Bipin Chandra Pal on the case.