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William Ashby (died 1593) was an English politician.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Grantham in 1586 and for Chichester in 1593.
In Scotland in the Autumn of 1589, Ashby reported to Francis Walsingham and William Cecil on the preparations of James VI of Scotland to sail to Norway to meet Anne of Denmark, and recorded the drowning of Jane Kennedy in an accident on the river Forth.