He was an ordained clergyman of the Church of England, and became the Vicar of Tardebigge, Worcestershire and Tamworth, Warwickshire.
He married on 15 June 1802, Elizabeth Haines, daughter of Rev.
In 1805, he succeeded his father as Lord Aston of Forfar in the peerage of Scotland.
While he assumed and bore the title of Lord Aston of Forfar, and it was recorded by the County of Worcester, he presented a petition in 1819 to be officially declared Baron Aston of Forfar, for which no decision was made.
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