Ashley, John

ASHLEY, John (p. 98 a). It seems certain that the performer on the bassoon was not the same as the assistant conductor of the commemoration of Handel. The ‘Mr. Ashley of the Guards’ who played the double bassoon on that occasion was most probably a brother of John Ashley's, named Jane, who was born in 1740 and died Apr. 5, 1809. John Ashley died March 2, 1805. [See vol. ii. 402 a, note 3.] His son, General Charles,...