Philip Aston, 6th Lord Aston of Forfar
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Philip Aston, 6th Lord Aston of Forfar, was probably born at his ancestral seat of Millwich in Staffordshire
, England
.
In 1751, he succeeded his distant cousin James Aston, 5th Lord Aston of Forfar
, as Lord Aston of Forfar
in the peerage of Scotland
.
He died unmarried just four years later, in 1755, when he was succeeded by his younger brother Walter Aston, 7th Lord Aston of Forfar
.
Staffordshire
Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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In 1751, he succeeded his distant cousin James Aston, 5th Lord Aston of Forfar
James Aston, 5th Lord Aston of Forfar
James Aston, 5th Lord Aston of Forfar was a son of Walter Aston, 4th Lord Aston of Forfar, and Lady Mary Howard....
, as Lord Aston of Forfar
Lord Aston of Forfar
Lord Aston of Forfar was a title in the Peerage of Scotland that was created on 28 November 1627 for Sir Walter Aston, Bt, who had been a baronet of Tixall Hall, Staffordshire on 22 May 1611...
in the peerage of Scotland
Peerage of Scotland
The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was...
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He died unmarried just four years later, in 1755, when he was succeeded by his younger brother Walter Aston, 7th Lord Aston of Forfar
Walter Aston, 7th Lord Aston of Forfar
Walter Aston, 7th Lord Aston of Forfar, succeeded his brother Philip Aston, 6th Lord Aston of Forfar, as Lord Aston of Forfar in the peerage of Scotland in 1755....
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