Sir Willoughby Aston, 2nd Baronet JP DL (5 July 1640 – 14 December 1702) was an English baronet.
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Early life
Aston was born on 5 July 1640. He was the only surviving son of Sir Thomas Aston, 1st Baronet, who fought for the Royalist cause in the English Civil War, and, his second wife, Anne Willoughby (1614–1688). After his father's death, his mother married Hon. Anchitell Grey, MP for Derby and second son of Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, From his parents' marriage, he was brother to Magdalen Aston (who married Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet), and Mary Aston (who married Michael Biddulph of Polesworth).
His paternal grandparents were John Aston of Aston, Cheshire and Maud (née Needham) Aston (a daughter of Robert Needham Esq.). His maternal grandparents were Sir Henry Willoughby, 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Knollys (a daughter of the privateer Sir Henry Knollys and Margaret Cave).
At just six years old, he succeeded to his father's baronetcy upon the elder Aston's death in at a prison in Stafford in 1646. He inherited the Aston Hall estate from his father, which was then subject to sequestration by Parliament. His uncle John recovered and managed the estate until his death in 1650.