Thomas Ashton (divine)

[1] He was educated at Eton College, where a group of friends formed—Ashton, Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole, and Richard West—who called themselves the "Quadruple Alliance".

[3] He is the "Thomas Ashton, Esq., tutor to the Earl of Plymouth", to whom Walpole addressed his Epistle from Florence.

Meanwhile, he had fallen out with Walpole, who complained to Sir Horace Mann, on 25 July 1750, that Ashton had written against his friend Conyers Middleton.

; in December 1760 he married a Miss Amyand; and in May 1762 was elected preacher at Lincoln's Inn, resigning in 1764.

Thomas Jones, intended as a rational and candid answer to his sermon preached at St. Botolph, Bishopsgate.