Henry Ashton, 4th Baron Ashton of Hyde

The Right Honourable
The Lord Ashton of Hyde
PC
The Right Honourable The Lord Ashton of Hyde PC
	Official portrait, 2022
Master of the Horse
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 18 June 2024
Monarch	Charles III
Preceded by	The Lord de Mauley
Chair of the International Relations and Defence Committee
	In office; 31 January 2023 – 30 May 2024
Preceded by	The Baroness Anelay of St Johns
Succeeded by	The Lord de Mauley
Chief Whip of the House of Lords; Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms
	In office; 26 July 2019 – 7 September 2022
Prime Minister	Boris Johnson
Preceded by	The Lord Taylor of Holbeach
Succeeded by	The Baroness Williams of Trafford
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Civil Society
	In office; 13 July 2016 – 26 July 2019
Prime Minister	Theresa May
Preceded by	Robert Wilson
Succeeded by	The Baroness Barran
Lord-in-waiting; Government Whip
	In office; 15 July 2014 – 11 June 2017
Prime Minister	David Cameron; Theresa May
Preceded by	The Lord Bates
Succeeded by	The Lord Henley
Member of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	Elected Hereditary Peer ; 20 July 2011
By-election	20 July 2011
Preceded by	The 7th Earl of Onslow
Personal details
Born	18 July 1958
Party	Conservative
Spouse	Emma Allinson
Relatives	Thomas Ashton (father)
Education	Trinity College, Oxford (BA)

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Thomas Henry Ashton, 4th Baron Ashton of Hyde PC (born 18 July 1958), is a British hereditary peer and former insurance broker who served as Chief Conservative Whip in the House of Lords and as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from 2019 to 2022.