Anthony Ascham

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Anthony Ascham (c.1614-1650) was a British Parliamentarian and Diplomat.

He graduated from King's College, Cambridge with an MA in 1642 before becoming the tutor to the future King James and his brother Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester in 1646.

He favoured a republican Commonwealth, and was appointed as a trade representative to the Hanseatic League in Hamburg in 1649. In 1650, he was appointed to represent the Commonwealth of England in Spain, but was murdered by Royalists in an Inn in Madrid on 27 May.

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