Walter Aston, 4th Lord Aston of Forfar
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Walter Aston, 4th Lord Aston of Forfar, (1660 or 1661–4 April 1748), a son of Walter Aston, 3rd Lord Aston of Forfar, and Eleanor Blount of Soddington.
In 1714, he succeeded his father as Lord Aston of Forfar in the peerage of Scotland.
He married Lady Mary Howard, only sister of the Thomas and Edward, the eighth and ninth Dukes of Norfolk. 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.
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- Paul, James Balfour. (1904.) "The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage, Volume I". David Douglas: Edinburgh, pp. 411-413. Retrieved on 2007-10-11.
