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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.
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
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.
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 ...
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While most of us commoners are familiar with terms like queen or king, princess or prince, there are a handful of other titles used in the British royal family that are slightly less familiar ...
A Nancy Astor portrait and a replica of the Minton Medusa go on show at Cliveden House in Berkshire.
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.