Walter Aston, 4th Lord Aston of Forfar

Walter Aston, 4th Lord Aston of Forfar (1660 or 1661 – 4 April 1748) was the eldest surviving son of Walter Aston, 3rd Lord Aston of Forfar, and his first wife Eleanor Blount of Soddington, daughter of Sir Walter Blount, 1st Baronet.

In 1714, he succeeded his father as Lord Aston of Forfar in the peerage of Scotland. Despite the title they were a Staffordshire family whose seat was at Tixall.

He married Lady Mary Howard, only sister of the Thomas and Edward, the eighth and ninth Dukes of Norfolk. She died in 1723 during the birth of their 11th child, James, who would succeed him as Lord Aston of Forfar. The Astons, like the Howards, were nearly all staunch Roman Catholics: during the outbreak of anti-Catholic hysteria called the Popish Plot, Walter's father was charged with treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London.

He died 4 April 1748, and was succeeded by his fifth but only surviving son James Aston, 5th Lord Aston of Forfar.

References

Paul, James Balfour. (1904.) "The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage, Volume I". David Douglas: Edinburgh, pp. 411–413. Retrieved 2007-10-11.

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