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Surname	Ashton	Alternative Surname
First Name	Robert II	Initial of Surname	A
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1801-36
Year of Death
Biographical Details	The son of Robert Ashton I, he inherited the profitable family business in December 1805, and had probably joined it by September 1801, when his father’s partner William Tyler RA left him £100 in his will. The younger Ashton signs a number of monuments and tablets, the best being that commemorating Christian Gosselin, which has a finely cut relief (8). The tablet to Anne Norton at Little Gaddesden, Herts, has a relief of a mourning woman seated by a sarcophagus, a broken lily in her hand (3). It is signed ‘ASHTON /Marylebone St /Piccadilly.’ In 1813 he was employed by Lord Ashburnham at his house in Dover Street, where he may also have carved a chimneypiece. Literary References: Gunnis 1968, 20 Wills: William Tyler RA, PROB 11/1363; Robert Ashton I, PROB 11/1434