Leonard James Ashton, CB, QHC (27 June 1915 – 19 January 2001) was an English Anglican bishop and military chaplain.
[1] He had previously spent most of his ordained ministry serving in the Chaplains Branch of the Royal Air Force, and rose to become its Chaplain-in-Chief (1969 to 1973).
[2] From 1954 to 1960, he served at RAF College, Cranwell, the Royal Air Force's main officer training establishment.
[2] From 1965 to 1969, he was the resident chaplain (i.e. priest-in-charge) of St Clement Danes in London, the central church of the Royal Air Force.
[2] In 1976, the Anglican presence in the region was reorganised: this resulted in the creation of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East and four new dioceses.
[2] He retired from full-time ordained ministry in 1983, as was succeeded by Henry Moore as bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf.
With retirement, Ashton returned to England and was appointed an honorary assistant bishop of the Diocese of Oxford.