Ralph Assheton (1596 – 17 February 1650) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1649.
He was a general in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War.
He was awarded MA at Cambridge in 1615 on the visit of the King, and was incorporated at Oxford University in 1616.
[2] In November 1640, Assheton was elected MP for Lancashire in the Long Parliament.
[3] He was an energetic supporter of parliament and the avowed leader of the Presbyterian party in Lancashire.