Thomas Henry Ashton,4th Baron Ashton of Hyde, PC (born 18 July 1958),has served as a Minister in HM Government since 2014 and by profession is an insurance broker. He succeeded to his family's peerage title on 2 August 2008.
Henry Ashton went to Eton College and Trinity College,Oxford. He was commissioned in the Royal Hussars,later becoming a Lieutenant in the Royal Wessex Yeomanry. Ashton worked as an insurance broker and held the position of Chief Executive Officer at Berkshire Hathaway-owned Lloyd's firms Faraday Underwriting Ltd,and Faraday Reinsurance Co. Ltd,from 2005 until 2013. From 2010 to 2013 Lord Ashton was a member of the Council of Lloyd's.
Elected a representative hereditary peer in July 2011,Ashton sits in the House of Lords as a Conservative. [2] In the July 2014 government reshuffle he was appointed a Lord-in-waiting and Whip in the Lords by Prime Minister David Cameron, [3] serving until the 2017 general election. [4] In July 2016 Prime Minister Theresa May appointed him as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Department for Culture,Media &Sport.
In March 2019,Lord Ashton received international publicity and acclaim for giving a correct and clever definition [5] to Lord Geddes,to the latter's question about the meaning of the term algorithm . Lord Ashton gave the definition as "an algorithm is a set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operations". [6] The definition was said to "[rival] dictionary entries for clarity and succinctness—wrapped up in a historical allusion that he knew his classically educated interlocutor would understand." [7]
In July 2019,Lord Ashton of Hyde was appointed Chief Whip in the House of Lords by new Prime Minister Boris Johnson. [8] He was appointed to the Privy Council the following month. [9]
Descended from a cadet branch of the ancient Lancashire Assheton family,he married Emma Louise Allinson,daughter of Colin Allinson and Alison Palmer (née Bartholomew),in 1987;they have four daughters/
As he does not have any sons,the heir presumptive to the family title is his younger brother,Jack Ashton. [10]
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