Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet (29 September 1600 – 24 March 1645) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.

Few were killed, but the prisoners included many of the principal Royalists who took part, and the town suffered at the hands of the Parliamentarians, who made free with the property of burgesses and the plate of the church.

Aston escaped, but when a few days later he returned to Chester, he was placed under arrest at Pulford, where he wrote a defence of his conduct which furnishes a very minute account of the affair.

[7] Aston apparently freed himself from censure and rejoined the king's army and indeed is said to have suffered a second defeat from Brereton at Macclesfield in 1643.

[3] Together, they had two daughters (Magdalen Burdett and Mary Biddulph) and a son Willoughby Aston, who succeeded his father as baronet.

Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet at the deathbed of his first wife, painted by John Souch (c. 1593–1646). [ 1 ] The arms are Aston impaling Pulteney
Arms of Pulteney: Argent, a fess dancettée gules in chief three leopard's faces sable