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| name = Sir Hubert Ashton<br />
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE|MC}}<br />
| image = Sir Hubert Ashton.jpg<br />
| caption = Ashton in May 1959.<br />
| constituency_MP = [[Chelmsford (UK Parliament constituency)|Chelmsford]]<br />
| parliament = United Kingdom<br />
| term_start = 23 February 1950<br />
| term_end = 15 October 1964<br />
| predecessor = [[Ernest Millington]]<br />
| successor = [[Norman St John-Stevas]]<br />
| birth_name = Hubert Ashton<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1898|2|13|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1979|6|17|1898|2|13|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Brentwood, Essex|Wealdside]], Essex, England<br />
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| citizenship = <br />
| nationality = <br />
| party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]<br />
| height = <br />
| spouse = {{marriage|Dorothy Gaitskell|1927}}<br />
| relations = <br />
| children = <br />
| module = {{Infobox cricketer<br />
| embed = yes<br />
| country = India<br />
| country2 = Burma<br />
| batting = Right-handed<br />
| bowling = <br />
| role = <br />
| international = true<br />
| club3 = [[Marylebone Cricket Club]]<br />
| year3 = 1927<br />
| club2 = [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]]<br />
| year2 = 1921–1939<br />
| club1 = [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]]<br />
| year1 = {{nowrap|1920–1922}}<br />
| columns = 1<br />
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| matches1 = 71<br />
| runs1 = 4,025<br />
| bat avg1 = 38.70<br />
| 100s/50s1 = 8/21<br />
| top score1 = 236[[not out|*]]<br />
| hidedeliveries = true<br />
| catches/stumpings1 = 71/–<br />
| date = 14 October<br />
| year = 2011<br />
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/4/4766/4766.html CricketArchive<br />
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'''Sir Hubert Ashton''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE|MC}} (13 February 1898 – 17 June 1979) was an English [[first-class cricket]]er, [[association football|footballer]] and politician.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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===Early life===<br />
Ashton was born in [[Calcutta]], India on 13 February 1898. Ashton's mother, Victoria Alexandrina Inglis, was the daughter of Sir [[John Eardley Wilmot Inglis]], who commanded the British forces at the [[Siege of Lucknow]], and [[Julia, Lady Inglis|Julia Selina Thesiger]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Victoria Alexandrina Inglis|url=http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I6126&tree=Kings|publisher=Family Search|accessdate=17 April 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330202349/http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I6126&tree=Kings|archivedate=30 March 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />
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Ashton was educated at [[Winchester College]]; on leaving Winchester in 1916 he joined the [[Royal Field Artillery]] and served for the rest of [[World War I]]. He was awarded the [[Military Cross]] "for conspicuous gallantry and skill in leading a section of guns into a forward position near Trones Wood on 27th August, 1918, where, under heavy shell and machine-gun fire, he succeeded in destroying an enemy strong point, thereby greatly facilitating the infantry advance."<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31158 |supp=y |date=1 February 1919 |page=1639}}</ref> After the war he went up to [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<br />
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===Cricket career===<br />
As a cricketer, Ashton was a sound right-hand batsman in the outstanding [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] sides in the years just after the [[First World War]], in which he had been commissioned in the [[Royal Field Artillery]] and won the [[Military Cross]], and he played for [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]] in the vacations. In both 1921 and 1922 he scored more than 1,000 runs and at the end of the 1922 season, after just three years in first-class cricket, Ashton was averaging more than 46 runs per innings. His most famous exploit, though, was as a member of the amateur side assembled by [[Archie MacLaren]] to take on the hitherto-invincible 1921 [[Australian cricket team]] at [[Eastbourne]]. Bowled out for just 43 runs in the first innings, the so-called "England XI" were, at 60 for four wickets in their second innings, still 71 behind when Ashton was joined by [[Aubrey Faulkner]]. Ashton hit 75 in 72 minutes, Faulkner made 153 and McLaren's side won the match by 28 runs. Ashton was named as a [[Wisden Cricketer of the Year]] in 1922 largely on account of this innings. Ashton was involved in an extraordinary incident during the match against [[Lancashire County Cricket Club|Lancashire]]. He was bowled, but both bails went up in the air and then returned to their grooves on top of the stumps, meaning that he was not out.<ref>Brodribb, Gerald (1995) ''Next Man In'', Souvenir Press: London. {{ISBN|0285634836}}.</ref><br />
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Ashton's three brothers, [[Gilbert Ashton|Gilbert]], [[Percy Ashton|Percy]] and [[Claude Ashton|Claude]], also played first-class cricket; Gilbert, Hubert and Claude captained Cambridge University in the three consecutive seasons from 1921 to 1923.<br />
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At the end of the 1922 cricket season Ashton joined the [[Burmah Oil Company]], and his appearances thereafter were sporadic. He played for [[Indian cricket team|India]] and for [[Burma national cricket team|Burma]] against the [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC) side led by [[Arthur Gilligan]] that toured India in 1926–27; he reappeared for several Essex matches in 1927; and there were a handful of first-class games across the 1930s, the last in 1939.<br />
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===Football career===<br />
Ashton was also an accomplished [[association football|footballer]], playing as an amateur for all his footballing career, which began with the [[Corinthian F.C.|Corinthians]] and then, during the 1919–20 season, [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]].<ref name="Kaufman02">{{cite book |last1=Kaufman |first1=Neilson N |last2=Ravenhill |first2=Alan E |title=The Men Who Made Leyton Orient Football Club |date=2002 |publisher=Tempus Publishing |isbn=0752424122 |page=21}}</ref> He made his only appearance in the [[Football League]] in May 1925 for [[Bristol Rovers F.C.|Bristol Rovers]] against [[Reading F.C.|Reading]].<ref name="Kaufman02" /> He joined [[Leyton Orient F.C.|Clapton Orient]] in August 1926, making five appearances for them during the 1926–27 season, and then joined [[Gillingham F.C.|Gillingham]] in May 1927 but shortly afterwards retired from football to focus on his cricketing career.<ref name="Kaufman02" /><br />
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===Post-cricket and political career===<br />
Ashton later pursued a different career, first in cricket administration, as president of Essex from 1941, and then in national UK politics. He served as [[High Sheriff of Essex]] in 1943 and was then elected as [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament (UK)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Chelmsford (UK Parliament constituency)|Chelmsford]] at the [[1950 United Kingdom general election|1950 general elections]] and held the seat at three further UK general elections, before retiring in 1964. He was knighted in 1959<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=41727 |supp=y |date=13 June 1959 |page=3706}}</ref> and it was as Sir Hubert Ashton that he became MCC president in 1960–61. Ashton died in [[South Weald]], Essex on 17 June 1979.<br />
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===Personal life===<br />
In 1927 Ashton married Dorothy Gaitskell, sister of [[Hugh Gaitskell]]. They had two sons and two daughters.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sir Hubert Ashtion (obituary) |newspaper=The Times |location=London |date=23 November 1979 |page=VIII}}</ref><br />
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