He succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Ashton of Hyde on the latter's death on 1 May 1933.

His uncle was Charles Lupton, Lord Mayor of Leeds whose funeral he attended in 1935.

[1] He gained the rank of Major with the 1st Royal Gloucestershire Hussars.

He married Marjorie Nell Brooks (1901-1993), daughter of Marshall Jones Brooks and Florence Thomas, on 10 June 1925, and had issue:

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