The 2nd Baron Clitheroe died 19 January, 2026. He was 96.
Lord Clitheroe, of Downham Hall, Clitheroe, Lancashire, was a businessman who served as Deputy Chief Executive of the Rio Tinto Group, and as Chairman of RTZ Chemicals, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto. He also served as Chairman of the Yorkshire Bank from 1990 to 1999. He was appointed to be a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire in 1986. He became a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Skinners in 1955. He also served as Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire from 1995 to 1999.
Ralph John Assheton was born 3 November, 1929, the elder son of the then Ralph Assheton, MP, PC (born 24 February, 1901), by his wife the Hon Sylvia Benita Frances Hotham (1903-1991), daughter of the 6th Baron Hotham (1863-1923).
His father was MP for Rushcliffe from 1934 to 1945, for the City of London from 1945 to 1950, and for Blackburn West from 1950 to 1955. In the wartime government under Winston Churchill, he was Minister of Supply in 1942, and Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1942 to 1944. He was sworn of the Privy Council in the 1944 New Year Honours, and served as Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1944 to 1946. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Clitheroe, in 1955. He was also the 2nd Baronet.
He succeeded his father, 18 September, 1984, as 2nd Baron Clitheroe and as 3rd Baronet.
He married 2 May, 1961, Juliet Hanbury (1936-2025), daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Lionel Hanbury, MBE, JP, TD (1905-1997), and his wife the former Lettice Mary Charrington (1906-1980), by whom he had issue, two sons Ralph and John and a daughter, Elizabeth. The elder son, the Hon Ralph Christopher Assheton (born 19 March, 1962), succeeds to the peerage and baronetcy.
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