Sir Jacob Astley, 1st Baronet

1639 – 17 August 1729)[1] of Melton Constable Hall, Norfolk was an English Tory politician and baronet.

[2] Astley was educated first at Norwich School,[3] then King's College, Cambridge,[4] and finally Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated on 19 June 1659.

[5] On 7 September of the same year on the death of his paternal uncle Sir Isaac Astley, 1st Baronet, he inherited the estates of Hill Morton, Warwickshire and Melton Constable,[6] and in 1688 the Maidstone, Kent estates of his cousin Jacob Astley, 3rd Baron Astley of Reading.

Having been already knighted, Astley was created a Baronet, of Hill Morton, in the County of Warwick on 26 June 1660.

[7] Astley was High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1664 and Commissioner of Trade between 1714 and 1717.