Ned Ashton

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Ned Ashton (full name Edward Lawrence Ashton) is a fictional character on the soap opera General Hospital. He was portrayed by Kurt McKinney from 1988-1991, and Wally Kurth from 1991 until present.

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[edit] Character history

Ned is the son of Tracy Quartermaine and Lord Lawrence Ashton, a British aristocrat. He heads up the Quartermaine family business ELQ and also handles personal family crisises that arise, earning him the family nickname "Gatekeeper" for grandfather Edward Quartermaine, grandmother Lila Morgan (now deceased), uncle Dr. Alan Quartermaine, aunt Dr. Monica Bard, mother Tracy Quartermaine, cousins Alan "AJ" Quartermaine Jr. (now deceased), Jason Morgan, and Emily Bowen-Quartermaine, and half-brother Dillon Quartermaine. Ned has had a number of relationships over the years. He was first introduced as having an affair with Dr. Monica Bard, the wife of his uncle Alan Quartermaine. She didn't recognize him because he had been sent to boarding school as a child and she didn't see him again until he was an adult. He later married and annulled Monica's daughter Dawn Winthrop, divorced Spencer cousin Jenny Eckert, and band manager and recording company executive Lois Cerullo, the mother of his daughter Brook Lynn Ashton. He was also briefly married to Katherine Bell because she was blackmailing the family. The marriage was invalid, because at the same time, he was married to Lois as Eddie Maine! He had a long affair with Alexis Davis, but she left him at the altar on their wedding day. He had a platonic marriage to Chloe Morgan, now deceased, who was a cousin of his grandmother Lila Quartermaine, and later was engaged to Alexis's long-lost sister Kristina Carter Cassadine, whose death he and Alexis blamed on Sonny Corinthos. Most recently, Ned had a relationship with Skye Chandler Quartermaine. For a time he pretended to be the father of Alexis's daughter, Kristina Davis and had custody of the little girl when Alexis was on trial for murdering Luis Alcazar and was later sentenced to probation. Alexis didn't want the Quartermaines to be involved in the girl's life, and he later decided to give up contact with her. Ned has been a back burner character in recent years.

[edit] Family, marriages, and romantic entanglements

[edit] Relatives

  • Lord Lawrence Ashton (father)
  • Tracy Quartermaine (mother)
  • Luke Spencer (stepfather)
  • Dillon Quartermaine (maternal half-brother)
  • Edward Quartermaine (maternal grandfather)
  • Lila Morgan (maternal grandmother; deceased)
  • George Quartermaine (maternal great-grandfather; deceased)
  • Ida Zemlock (maternal great-grandmother; deceased)
  • Harold Morgan (maternal great-grandfather; deceased)
  • Unnamed Female (maternal great-grandmother; deceased)
  • Alan Quartermaine Sr. (maternal uncle)
  • Charlie Prince (paternal half-uncle)
  • Bradley Ward II (maternal half-uncle; deceased)
  • Jimmy Lee Holt (maternal half-uncle)
  • Alan Quartermaine Jr. (maternal cousin; deceased)
  • Jason Morgan (maternal cousin)
  • Emily Bowen-Quartermaine (adoptive maternal cousin)
  • Skye Chandler Quartermaine (adoptive maternal cousin)
  • Justus Ward (maternal half-cousin; deceased)
  • Faith Ward (maternal half-cousin)
  • Unnamed Female Ward (maternal half-cousin)

[edit] Marriages

Marital status: Single

  • Dawn Winthrop (annulled; deceased)
  • Jenny Eckert (divorced)
  • Lois Cerullo (divorced, 1st time)
  • Katherine Bell (invalid; deceased)
  • Lois Cerullo (divorced, 2nd time)
  • Chloe Morgan (divorced; deceased)

[edit] Children

[edit] Romantic entanglements

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