Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar
- Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar
Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar (6 April, 1609–23 April 1678), a son of Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar, and Gertrude Sadleir of Standon.
In 1639, he succeeded his father as Lord Aston of Forfar in the peerage of Scotland. And, in 1660, at the death of his maternal uncle Ralph Sadleir, he inherited the lordship of Standon and other estates in Hertfordshire, England.
Lord Aston was a staunch Royalist during the English Civil War. He married in 1629 to Lady Mary Weston, daughter of Sir Richard Weston, Earl of Portland and Lord High Treasurer of England.
He died April 23, 1678, and was succeeded by his eldest son Walter Aston, 3rd Lord Aston of Forfar.
ee also
*Lord Aston of Forfar
References
* Burke's Dormant & Extinct Peerages, originally published in London in 1883, reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1996. Pages 13 & 14.
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