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Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945. [ a ] [ 1 ] Astor was born in Danville , Virginia and raised in Greenwood , Virginia.
Cliveden house. The Cliveden set were an upper-class group of politically influential people active in the 1930s in the United Kingdom, prior to the Second World War.They were in the circle of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, the first female Member of Parliament to take up her seat.
He was the only child of Nancy Witcher Langhorne and Robert Gould Shaw II, a landowner and socialite. After his parents' divorce in 1903, he moved to England with his mother Nancy, who later married Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor and became the first woman in Britain to take her seat as a member of parliament. [1]
His eldest son Waldorf, the second Viscount, was the husband of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. As of 2017 [update] , the titles are held by their grandson, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1966.
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (née Nancy Witcher Langhorne) Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (née Nancy Witcher Langhorne, previously Shaw) on 3 May 1906 [266] The Hon. Mrs Lionel John Olive Lambart (née Adelaide Douglas Randolph) on 8 May 1906 [92] Mary Falle, Baroness Portsea (née Mary Greene Hubbard Sturgis, previously Seymour) on 18 July ...
Nancy Witcher, Viscountess Astor, Member of Parliament for the Sutton Division; The Reverend Melbourn Evans Aubrey, Moderator of the Federal Council of the Evangelical Free Churches. General Secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland; Miss Gwendoline Elizabeth Davies. For educational, social and philanthropic services in Wales
The estate was bought in 1958 by David Astor (son of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor), owner of the local Manor House since 1945 and publisher of The Observer (1948–1975). [38] From late 1960 until 1970, the Astor family leased The Abbey for a peppercorn rent to the Ockenden Venture. The Ockenden Venture, now Ockenden International, is an ...
Lady Astor maintained a keen interest in the school for the rest of her life and was instrumental in having her father Chiswell Langhorne donate the school chapel in memory of his wife Nancy Witcher Keene (parents of Lady Astor). [3] Virginia Episcopal School opened its doors to students in September 1916.