Ned Quartermaine (Wally Kurth)

Edward Lawrence Quartermaine "Ned" Ashton is the son of Tracy Quartermaine and Larry Ashton, a British aristocrat. He was played from 1988-1991 by McKinney, and from 1991-2007, 2012, and 2013 by Wally Kurth.

Storylines
Ned has had a number of relationships over the years. He was first introduced as having an affair with Dr. Monica Quartermaine, the wife of his uncle Alan. She didn't recognize him because he had been sent to boarding school as a child and she didn't see him again until he was an adult. He later married and annulled Monica's daughter Dawn Winthrop, divorced Spencer cousin Jenny Eckert, and band manager and recording company executive Lois Cerullo, the mother of his daughter Brook Lynn Ashton. He was also briefly married to Katherine Bell because she was blackmailing the family. The marriage was invalid, because at the same time, he was married to Lois as Eddie Maine. He had a long affair with Alexis Davis, but she left him at the altar on their wedding day.

He had a platonic marriage to Chloe Morgan, who was a distant cousin of his grandmother Lila, and later was engaged to Alexis's long-lost sister Kristina Cassadine, whose death he and Alexis blamed on Sonny Corinthos. Most recently, Ned had a relationship with Skye Chandler. For a time he pretended to be the father of Alexis's daughter, Kristina Davis, and had custody of the little girl when Alexis was on trial for murdering Luis Alcazar and was later sentenced to probation. Alexis didn't want the Quartermaines to be involved in the girl's life, and he later decided to give up contact with her. Ned has been a back burner character in recent years, living quietly in Los Angeles and Brooklyn at once.

Returns
He returned in November 2007 to attend Emily's funeral.

He also returned in November 2012 to attend the Quartermaine's Thanksgiving andhis grandfather Edward's funeral. On the 22nd, he visits his mother Tracy in the family mausoleum and then heads to the mansion. He is part of the argument between his mother Tracy, Monica, A.J. and himself until Michael intervenes. He witnesses Heather attack on Skye. He supports his mother in the battle of CEO when A.J. tries to take control of ELQ Enterprises. He leaves town for awhile.

He returned in January 24, 2013 to see and help his mother Tracy keep her CEO position in aftermath of Lucy Coe's vampire-hunting attack on John McBain.