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'{{Short description|British politician (born 1958)}} {{Use British English|date=November 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] |name = The Lord Ashton of Hyde |honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PC}} |image = Official portrait of Lord Ashton of Hyde crop 2, 2022.jpg |caption = Official portrait, 2022 |office = [[Chief Whip of the Conservative Party|Chief Whip of the House of Lords]]<br>[[Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms]] |primeminister = [[Boris Johnson]] |term_start = 26 July 2019 |term_end = 7 September 2022 |predecessor = [[John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach|The Lord Taylor of Holbeach]] |successor = [[Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford|The Baroness Williams of Trafford]] |office1 = [[Minister for Civil Society|Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Civil Society]] |primeminister1 = [[Theresa May]] |term_start1 = 13 July 2016 |term_end1 = 26 July 2019<ref>Portfolio was DCMS until June 2017</ref> |predecessor1 = [[Rob Wilson]] |successor1 = [[Diana Barran, Baroness Barran|The Baroness Barran]] |office2 = [[Lord-in-waiting]]<br>[[Government Whip]] |primeminister2 = [[David Cameron]]<br>[[Theresa May]] |term_start2 = 15 July 2014 |term_end2 = 11 June 2017 |predecessor2 = [[Michael Bates, Baron Bates|The Lord Bates]] |successor2 = [[Oliver Eden, 8th Baron Henley|The Lord Henley]] | office4 = [[List of members of the House of Lords|Member of the House of Lords]] | status4 = [[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]] | term_label4 = as an [[List of hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999|elected]] [[Hereditary peer|hereditary peer]] | term_start4 = 25 July 2011 | term_end4 = | 1blankname4 = [[By-elections to the House of Lords|By-election]] | 1namedata4 = 25 July 2011 | predecessor4 = [[Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow|The 7th Earl of Onslow]] | successor4 = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|7|18|df=y}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] |spouse = Emma Allinson |relatives = [[Thomas Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde|Thomas Ashton]] (father) |education = [[Trinity College, Oxford]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) }} '''Thomas Henry Ashton, 4th Baron Ashton of Hyde''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|PC}} (born 18 July 1958), has served as a [[Minister (government)|Minister]] in [[HM Government]] since 2014 and by profession is an [[insurance broker]]. He succeeded to his [[Hereditary peerage|family's peerage title]] on 2 August 2008. ==Education and career== Henry Ashton went to [[Eton College]] and [[Trinity College, Oxford]]. He was [[Commissioned officer|commissioned]] in the [[Royal Hussars]], later becoming a [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|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 peer|representative]] [[hereditary peer]] in [[By-elections to the House of Lords#2011|July 2011]], Ashton sits in the [[House of Lords]] as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-information-office/2011/result-by-election-e-onslow.pdf | title=Conservative Hereditary Peers' by-election, July 2011: Result | publisher=House of Lords | date=20 July 2011 | access-date=20 July 2011}}</ref> In the July 2014 [[government reshuffle]] he was appointed a [[Lord-in-waiting]] and [[Whip (politics)|Whip]] in the [[House of Lords|Lords]] by [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[David Cameron]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gov.uk/government/people/lord-ashton-of-hyde | title=Lord Ashton of Hyde | publisher=GOV.UK | access-date=17 July 2014}}</ref> serving until the [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017 general election]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/election-2017-ministerial-appointments |title=Full list of new ministerial and government appointments: June 2017 |publisher=Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street |date=12 June 2017|access-date=21 June 2017}}</ref> In July 2016 Prime Minister [[Theresa May]] appointed him as [[Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State]] for the [[Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport|Department for Culture, Media & Sport]]. In March 2019, Lord Ashton received international publicity and acclaim for giving a correct and clever definition<ref>[https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/the-house-of-lords-just-gave-a-charmingly-spot-on-definition-of-algorithm.html Two British Lords Just Gave a Charmingly Spot-On Definition of 'Algorithm'], Will Oremus, [[Slate.com]], 2019-03-14</ref> to [[Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes|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".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2019-03-14/debates/48AED762-1EFC-42FC-958D-4C72E469A719/PublicAuthoritiesAlgorithms|title=14 March 2019 Volume 796|access-date=26 July 2019|publisher=House of Lords Hansard}}</ref> 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."<ref>[http://pic.twitter.com/6mP5rdKfIj video], Twitter, 2019-03-14 {{dead link|date=June 2022}}</ref> In July 2019, Lord Ashton of Hyde was appointed Chief Whip in the House of Lords by new Prime Minister [[Boris Johnson]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2019-07-26|title=Boris Johnson 'absolutely' rules out pre-Brexit election|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49125078|access-date=2021-06-14}}</ref> He was appointed to the Privy Council the following month.<ref>[https://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Orders-Approved.pdf ORDERS APPROVED AT THE PRIVY COUNCIL HELD BY THE QUEEN AT BALMORAL ON 28TH AUGUST 2019]</ref> ==Family== Descended from a [[cadet branch]] of the ancient Lancashire [[Assheton baronets|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 [[Peerage|family title]] is his younger brother, Jack Ashton.<ref>{{cite book | last = Mosley| first = Charles ([[editor|ed.]]) | title = [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 107th edn]] | location = London | publisher = Burke's Peerage & Gentry Ltd | page = 159 (ASHTON OF HYDE, B) | date = 2003 | isbn = 0-9711966-2-1}}</ref> ==See also== * [[Baron Ashton of Hyde]] ===Arms=== {{Infobox emblem wide |image = |imagesize = . |caption = |bannerimage = |badgeimage = |notes = |adopted = |coronet = That of a [[List of barons in the peerages of Britain and Ireland|Baron]]<br />[[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|35px]] |crest = On a Mount Vert a Mower Proper vested paly Argent and Sable in the act of whetting his Scythe also Proper. |torse = |helm = That of a [[Peer of the realm|Peer]] |escutcheon = Sable on a Pile between two Crescents in base Argent a Mullet pierced of the First. |supporters = Dexter, a Mower Proper vested paly Argent and Sable holding in the exterior hand a Scythe also Proper; Sinister, a Boar Argent semy of Mullets Sable pierced. |compartment = |motto = ''Fide et Virtute'' <br />([[English language|''Eng'']]: With faith and valour) |orders = |other_elements = |banner = |badge = |symbolism = |previous_versions = }} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *‘ASHTON OF HYDE’, ''[[Who's Who 2018]]'', A & C Black; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2017 {{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|rows=2|before=[[John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach|The Lord Taylor of Holbeach]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Chief Whip]] of the [[House of Lords]]|years=2019–2022}} {{s-aft|after=[[Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford|The Baroness Williams of Trafford]]|rows=2}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms]]|years=2019–2022}} {{s-ppo}} {{s-bef|before=[[John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach|The Lord Taylor of Holbeach]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Chief Whip of the Conservative Party|Conservative Chief Whip]] in the [[House of Lords]]|years=2019–2022}} {{s-aft|after=[[Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford|The Baroness Williams of Trafford]]}} {{s-par|uk}} {{s-bef|before=[[Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow|The Earl of Onslow]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[List of hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999|Elected hereditary peer]] to the [[House of Lords]]<br>'''''under the [[House of Lords Act 1999]]'''''|years=2011–present}} {{s-inc}} {{s-reg|uk}} {{s-bef | before = [[Thomas Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde|Thomas Ashton]]}} {{s-ttl | title =[[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|35px]]<br /> [[Baron Ashton of Hyde]] | years = 2008–present}} {{s-inc | heir = John Ashton | heir-type=Heir presumptive}} {{s-end}} {{Current Barons of the United Kingdom}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ashton Of Hyde, Henry Ashton, 4th Baron}} [[Category:1958 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:People from Gloucestershire]] [[Category:Ashton family|Henry]] [[Category:People educated at Eton College]] [[Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford]] [[Category:Barons Ashton of Hyde|4]] [[Category:Conservative Party (UK) Baronesses- and Lords-in-Waiting]] [[Category:Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers]] [[Category:Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act]] [[Category:English financial businesspeople]] [[Category:Government ministers of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom]]'