1605 – 30 January 1680) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and 1680.
Assheton was the son of Sir Ralph Assheton, 1st Baronet of Lever, Lancashire and his wife Dorothy Bellingham, daughter of Sir James Bellingham of Levens, Westmorland.
He succeeded his father to the Assheton baronetcy on 18 October 1644 and to the family's Downham estate near Clitheroe.
[1] He built the vault beneath the Assheton chapel at St Leonard's Church, Downham and endowed a sermon on the resurrection to be preached an annually on the anniversary of his death.
[3] He married twice; firstly Lady Dorothy Tufton, the daughter of Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet and secondly Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Sapcotes Harrington of Rand, Lincolnshire with whom he had one son, who died before him.