was the head of a commission to inquire into the abuses in the post office. His house at Chiswick, with its contents, was purchased by the king for the Duke of Monmouth, of whom (January 1665) he was made one of the guardians. His loans to Charles I were paid by grants of crown leases. He and his brother William Ashburnham shared in an enterprise for reviving the manufacture of tapestry at the Mortlake Tapestry Works (March and April 1667). His large memorial tomb by Thomas Burman stands in St Peter's Church in Ashburnham, East Sussex. Family Ashburnham's daughter Elizabeth married Sir Hugh Smith, 1st Baronet of Long Ashton. His grandson John was ennobled as Baron Ashburnham in 1689, and his great-grandson as Earl of Ashburnham, a title that became extinct in 1924. Notes References Attribution: External links A Narrative by John Ashburnham of his Attendance on King Charles the First from Oxford to the Scotch Army, and from Hampton Court to Isle of Wight, John Ashburnham, George Ashburnham, Vol. II, Payne and Foss, Paternoster Row, London, 1830 1603 births 1671 deaths Cavaliers English MPs 1628–1629 English MPs 1640–1648 English MPs 1661–1679 17th-century English diplomats Prisoners in the Tower of London People from Ashburnham, East Sussex