Walter Aston, 4th Lord Aston of Forfar (1660 or 1661 – 4 April 1748) was a son of Walter Aston, 3rd Lord Aston of Forfar

Walter Aston, 3rd Lord Aston of Forfar

Walter Aston, 3rd Lord Aston of Forfar was a son of Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar, and Lady Mary Weston.He succeeded his father as Lord Aston of Forfar in the peerage of Scotland in 1678....

, and Eleanor Blount of Soddington.

In 1714, he succeeded his father 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 married Lady Mary Howard, only sister of the Thomas and Edward, the eighth and ninth Dukes of Norfolk

Duke of Norfolk

The Duke of Norfolk is the premier duke in the peerage of England, and also, as Earl of Arundel, the premier earl. The Duke of Norfolk is, moreover, the Earl Marshal and hereditary Marshal of England. The seat of the Duke of Norfolk is Arundel Castle in Sussex, although the title refers to the...

. She died in 1723 during the birth of their 11th child, James, who would succeed him as Lord Aston of Forfar.

He died April 4, 1748, and was succeeded by his fifth but only surviving son 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....

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