Thomas John Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde (19 November 1926 – 2 August 2008), was the eldest son of Thomas Ashton, 2nd Baron Ashton of Hyde, and his wife Marjorie Nell Brookes.

He succeeded his father as Baron Ashton of Hyde on the latter's death on 21 March 1983.

He gained the rank of major with the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars.

He held the office of Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire, 1965–1968.

He married Pauline Trewlove Brackenbury, daughter of Lt.-Col. Robert Henry Langton Brackenbury, on 18 May 1957, and has issue: This biography of a baron in the peerage of the United Kingdom is a stub.