Robert 'Bob' Ashton, FRHistS (21 July 1924 – 9 February 2013) was a British historian specialising in early modern England.
A leading authority on the House of Stuart, he was Professor of English history at the University of East Anglia.
[1] When the University of East Anglia opened in 1963, he was appointed the founding Professor of English history.
[2] He was appointed Dean of the School of English Studies in 1964, after Ian Watt moved on, serving until 1967.
He published his last book in 1994 and gave his final lecture in 2002 at the Norfolk and Norwich branch of the Historical Association.
[1] He lived at the Manor House, Brundall, where coincidentally the English Historian Lord Blake was born.