29 January 1792 – 13 April 1868) was an English co-operator, weaver, chartist, and marine.

[1][2] He was father to fellow Rochdale Pioneer Samuel Ashworth.

[1][2] After leaving the navy he became a weaver and in 1823 married Jane Howarth with whom he went on to have seven children.

In 1845 he became a trustee of the co-op, with Charles Howarth succeeding him as president.

In 1848 he moved to Minster Lovell to join his son Samuel to work as a farmer as part of the Chartist Land Plan but after six months Samuel sold the plot and they returned to Rochdale.