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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.
Langhorne's daughter, Nancy, Lady Astor. In 1864, while the Civil War was still in progress, Langhorne married sixteen-year-old Nancy Witcher "Nanaire" Keene (1848–1903). Together, they had a total of eleven children; eight of whom survived childhood (three children, John, Mary, and Chiswell Jr., were born and died in infancy between 1870 and ...
On October 27, 1897, RGS II married Nancy Witcher Langhorne (1879–1964) in New York City. She was the 18-year-old daughter of railroad millionaire Chiswell Dabney Langhorne and Nancy Witcher Keene. They had one son: [10] Robert Gould Shaw III (1898–1970). [11] Died unmarried and without children.
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]
In 1905, while a passenger on an Atlantic voyage returning to Britain, Astor met Nancy Langhorne Shaw, a divorced woman with a young son (Robert Gould Shaw III). Coincidentally, both he and Mrs Shaw shared the same birthdate, 19 May 1879, and both were American. [3] After a rapid courtship, the two married in May 1906.
A Washington, D.C. man has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed his grandmother to death and then texted a photograph of her dead body to other family members last Friday ...
Marcus Rutledge vanished from Nashville, Tennessee in June 1998. Remains found off Pecan Valley Rd in 2010 have just been identified as belonging to him. The Metro Nashville Police Department has ...
Nancy Witcher Langhorne, bka Nancy Astor (1879–1964), American-born first woman British MP; Langhorne Bond (born 1937), U.S. federal administrator; Langhorne Slim (born 1980), American country singer; Bruce Langhorne (1938–2017), American folk musician; Cary DeVall Langhorne (1873–1948), American Medal of Honor recipient