Henry Ashton, 4th Baron Ashton of Hyde

The Lord Ashton of Hyde
Official portrait, 2022
Master of the Horse
Assumed office
18 June 2024
MonarchCharles III
Preceded byThe Lord de Mauley
Chair of the International Relations and Defence Committee
Assumed office
31 January 2023
Preceded byThe Baroness Anelay of St Johns
Chief Whip of the House of Lords
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
In office
26 July 2019 – 7 September 2022
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Preceded byThe Lord Taylor of Holbeach
Succeeded byThe Baroness Williams of Trafford
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Civil Society
In office
13 July 2016 – 26 July 2019[1]
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Preceded byRob Wilson
Succeeded byThe Baroness Barran
Lord-in-waiting
Government Whip
In office
15 July 2014 – 11 June 2017
Prime MinisterDavid Cameron
Theresa May
Preceded byThe Lord Bates
Succeeded byThe Lord Henley
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as an elected hereditary peer
25 July 2011
Preceded byThe 7th Earl of Onslow
Personal details
Born (1958-07-18) 18 July 1958 (age 66)
Political partyConservative
SpouseEmma Allinson
RelativesThomas Ashton (father)
EducationTrinity College, Oxford (BA)

Thomas Henry Ashton, 4th Baron Ashton of Hyde, PC (born 18 July 1958), is a British hereditary peer and former insurance broker who served as Chief Whip of the House of Lords and Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from 2019 to 2022. He succeeded to his family's peerage title on 2 August 2008.

  1. ^ Portfolio was DCMS until June 2017.