[1] In 1639, he succeeded his father as Lord Aston of Forfar in the peerage of Scotland, and, in 1661, at the death of his maternal uncle Ralph Sadleir, he inherited the lordship of Standon and other estates in Hertfordshire, England.
He was present at the Siege of Lichfield in 1643 and the surrender of Oxford; King Charles I expressed his regret at not being able to reward him as he deserved.
[4] He died on 23 April 1678, and was succeeded by his eldest son Walter Aston, 3rd Lord Aston of Forfar, who inherited his father's role as protector of the Staffordshire Catholic community, and narrowly avoided becoming one of the martyrs of the Popish Plot, as did his younger brother, William.
[4] His widow did not long survive him: according to her son-in-law Sir John Southcote (who married her daughter Elizabeth), "she grew melancholy and lost her wits, keeping almost perpetual silence and refusing nourishment".
[1] They had four other daughters, Gertrude ( a nun), Mary, Frances, who married Sir Edward Gage, 1st Baronet, and Anne, who married Henry Somerset of Pauntley Court, a grandson of Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester; and two younger sons Thomas and William.