James Lloyd Ashbury

[1] Ashbury stayed on to take part in the club cruise, and entertained the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant on his yacht.

[1] Although the event ended in acrimony, Ashbury was the catalyst for the introduction of greater fairness in no longer allowing the defender to use multiple yachts against a single challenger, and was belatedly inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 1997.

When a general election was called in 1868, he put himself forward as a parliamentary candidate, claiming to be responding to an "extensively signed requisition".

[4] He was adopted as candidate by the Conservative Party, pledging to give "general but independent support" to the government of Disraeli.

He purchased a large sheep station on the South Island of New Zealand, but due to mismanagement it became a major financial liability.

The newspapers of September 1895 reported that the body of an elderly "gentleman of no occupation" known as James Ashbury had been found in his London lodgings, having apparently taken his life with an overdose of chlorodyne.