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2 unusual facts about Nicholas Assheton


Nicholas Assheton

Harrison Ainsworth introduced Assheton into his novel Lancashire Witches, book ii, chap, iii, as "a type of the Lancashire squire of the day"; but both Whitaker and the novelist were mistaken in considering him a Puritan.

Ralph Anstruther

In 1998, he was replaced by Nicholas Assheton, becoming Treasurer Emeritus, but resisted his replacement and evinced hostility to Assheton and Sir Alastair Aird, the Queen Mother's Private Secretary.



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