Viscount Astor, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1917 for the financier and statesman...
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William Waldorf Astor III, 4th Viscount Astor (born 27 December 1951) is an English businessman and politician who sits as a Conservative hereditary Lord...
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Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, DL (19 May 1879 – 30 September 1952) was an American-born English politician and newspaper proprietor. He was a member...
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William Waldorf Astor II, 3rd Viscount Astor (13 August 1907 – 7 March 1966) was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was also...
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William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (31 March 1848 – 18 October 1919) was an American-English attorney, politician, hotelier, publisher and philanthropist...
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English descendants of the Astors hold two hereditary peerages: Viscount Astor and Baron Astor of Hever. While many Astor family members joined the Episcopal...
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Together, they had one child, William Waldorf Astor in 1848, who later became the 1st Viscount Astor and married Mary Dahlgren Paul. In 1859, he built...
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married William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor (1907—1966) as his third wife. Viscount Astor, known to his family and friends as Bill Astor, was the eldest...
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Cliveden (category Astor family residences)
two Dukes, an Earl, and finally the Viscounts Astor. As the home of Nancy Astor, wife of the 2nd Viscount Astor, Cliveden was the meeting place of the...
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She remarried William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor, on 14 January 1976. They have three children: The Honourable Flora Katherine Astor (7 June 1976), who married...
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socialite Grace (née Wilson) Vanderbilt). Astor was also a first cousin of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, with whom his mother had a notorious...
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politician. He was the fourth child of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor. Lord Astor of Hever was succeeded in 1971 by his eldest son, the second...
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Jacob Astor III (1822–1890) was the father of William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919), who later moved to England and became the 1st Viscount Astor. Samuel...
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the Astor family. John Jacob Astor V was born in Manhattan, New York City, in 1886, the fourth child of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (1848–1919)...
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to: William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor (1907–1966), English businessman and politician, grandson of the above William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor (born 1951)...
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3rd Viscount Astor Phillipa Victoria Hunloke, 2nd wife of William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor Bronwen Astor (1930–2017), 3rd wife of the 3rd Viscount Annabel...
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Sarah Baring (category Astor family)
code-breaking during the Second World War. She was married to William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, from 1945 to 1953. Sarah Kathleen Elinor Norton was born on 20...
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was born on 10 April 1916. He was the fourth child of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, and Nancy Witcher Langhorne, both Members of Parliament. He attended...
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ennobled (Holy Roman Empire) Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, by birth William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, ennobled Tennessee Claflin, by marriage...
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Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated...
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the youngest of the four sons of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor and Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1878–1964). His mother was the first woman elected...
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among Viscounts is: Viscounts in the Peerage of England Viscounts in the Peerage of Scotland Viscounts in the Peerage of Great Britain Viscounts in the...
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1920 in reference to Nancy Astor who had been elected as the first female MP to take up her seat the previous year. Astor went on to further use the term...
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married Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor in 1906, with whom she had five more children, including William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor. In 1919, she was...
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Astor" or simply "Mrs. Astor", she was the wife of yachtsman William Backhouse Astor Jr. They had five children, including Colonel John Jacob Astor IV...
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Livingston) Armstrong. Her uncle John Jacob Astor III was the father of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor. Carrie grew up at her parents' New York...
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three 19th century British prime ministers, and William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor of Cliveden House, widely believed to be the richest man in America...
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newspaper proprietor William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor (1907–66), British Conservative Party politician William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor (born 1951), British...
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Petty-Fitzmaurice. His father, the fourth child of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor and Mary Dahlgren Paul, was only five years old when his family...
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the third child of American-born English parents, Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (1879–1952), and Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879–1964). The product of...
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