Arthur Aston (American Football)
Arthur Aston may refer to: * Sir Arthur Aston (governor) (died 1627), proprietary governor of Avalon * Sir Arthur Aston (army officer) (1590–1649), English soldier and Royalist * Sir Arthur Ingram Aston (1798–1836), English diplomat * Arthur Aston (cricketer) (1875–1949), English cricketer, barrister and judge * Arthur Vincent Aston Arthur Vincent Aston (1896–1981), was a colonial administrator in British Malaya (later the Malayan Union and then the Federation of Malaya). He was the first British adviser for Perak after the abolition of the post of British Resident of Pe ...

Arthur Aston (governor)
Sir Arthur Aston (died 1627) was appointed Proprietary Governor of Avalon in 1625 by Sir George Calvert, (1579-1632), former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to King James I of England (and earlier James VI of Scotland), (later titled first Baron and Lord Baltimore in Ireland and received charter from King Charles I of the Kingdom of England in 1632 just before his death to found colonial Province of Maryland further south along Chesapeake Bay in future United States of America, carried out in 1634 by his eldest son/heir Cecilius Calvert, second Baron and Lord Baltimore, 605-1675 and nephew Leonard Calvert, 606-1647 first provincial Governor of Maryland). Aston was a devout Roman Catholic and was recommended by Father Stout to govern the Catholic colony. Aston arrived in Ferryland, Avalon's capital, around 1626 but returned to England the next year to resign his position and join the forces of the George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham in France France ( ...
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Arthur Aston (army Officer)
Sir Arthur Aston (1590 – 11 September 1649) was an English people, English professional soldier, most noted for his support for Charles I of England, King Charles I in the English Civil War, and in folklore for the gruesome manner of his death in Ireland. He was from a prominent Roman Catholic family originating in Cheshire. He was killed during the Siege of Drogheda during the Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland. Early career in central Europe Aston was the son of another Sir Arthur Aston, of Fulham, Middlesex, and the grandson of Sir Thomas Aston of Aston in Bucklow (hundred), Bucklow Hundred, Cheshire.''Biographia Britannica'', v.1, p.242 Aston's father was a professional soldier who had served in Russia in the 1610s, and, being a Catholic, had caught the attention and trust of the Polish king Sigismund III. Arthur Aston (governor), Arthur Aston senior agreed to raise 2,000 British mercenaries for the Polish crown for the Turkish war of 1621. Though most of these mercenaries bou ...
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Arthur Ingram Aston
Sir Arthur Ingram Aston (23 December 1798 – 5 May 1859) was an English diplomat. Biography Aston was born in London into a prominent landed family, the Astons of Aston Hall, Aston-by-Sutton, Cheshire. He was the second son of Capt. Henry Charles Hervey-Aston and Hon. Harriet Ingram-Shepherd, fourth daughter of Charles Ingram, 9th Viscount of Irvine. He was a great grandson of Hon. Rev. Dr. Henry Hervey, fifth son of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, who assumed the Aston surname. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. Aston served at the British embassies in Vienna in 1819 and in Rio de Janeiro in 1826. He was appointed secretary of the British embassy in Paris in 1833 and became envoy-extraordinary and plenipotentiary at Madrid from 1839 to 1843. He was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ce ...
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Arthur Aston (cricketer)
Arthur Henry Southcote Aston (4 July 1875 – 30 May 1949) was an English barrister and judge in British India. He played one match as a first-class cricketer. Life The son of Henry Faure Aston of the Indian Civil Service, and his wife Augusta Creed, he was born in British India at Poona in July 1875. He was educated in England at Harrow School, before going up to Balliol College, Oxford. After graduating from Oxford, he was called to the bar in 1901 to practice as a barrister. The following year Aston departed for British India, where he practiced as a barrister at Bombay. He was the honorary secretary of the Bombay Gymkhana in 1904 and 1905. He played cricket for the Byculla Club. His only appearance in first-class cricket was for the Europeans cricket team against the Parsees in the 1904–05 Bombay Presidency Match. Aston spent a year in Sind as a public prosecutor and government pleader, before returning to Bombay in 1907 to take up the appointment of Chief Magistrat ...
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