Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet (19 February 1828 – 10 October 1894) was an English soldier and sportsman.

[1] On 22 May 1858, he married an heiress, Eleanor Blanche Mary Corbett, of Elsham Hall, North Lincolnshire.

Eleanor (died 7 June 1897) was the daughter of Thomas George Corbett (died 5 July 1868) and wife (married 15 December 1837) Lady Mary Noel Beauclerk (28 December 1810 – 29 November 1850), daughter of the 8th Duke of St Albans.

[citation needed] He was a popular figure at horse race meetings, known familiarly as "the Mate", and for winning and losing large sums of money.

Just before his death in October 1894, he published entertaining reminiscences under the title of Fifty Years of My Life.