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Hace 15 horas · Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, who was married to Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, became the first woman in the House of Commons in the chamber's history in 1919. Her son, ...
Hace 4 días · William Waldorf Astor, M.P., latterly 3rd Viscount Astor, 1937–66. No. 46 It has a red-brick and Portland-stone front of minimal neo-Georgian character, for which the elevation was personally approved by the second Duke.
Hace 3 días · Directly successively – Waldorf Astor (later 2nd Viscount Astor), who was MP for Plymouth December 1910 – December 1918 and Plymouth Sutton December 1918 – October 1919 (on succession to hereditary peerage), and Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, who succeeded him as MP for the latter seat, becoming the first woman to take her seat in the Commons, from by-election in November 1919 until ...
Hace 4 días · 1. Peacock Alley, a 300-ft Corridor Merged Two Hotels. Photo from Library of Congress. In 1893, William Waldorf Astor hired renowned architect Henry Hardenbergh, who would later design The...
Hace 5 días · Astor Place. Astoria, Queens, the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Pretty much anything in New York with A-S-T-O-R in its name is tied to this 19th Century real estate mogul’s estate.
Hace 4 días · It was built between 1905 and 1908 as a residential hotel by William Waldorf Astor, who named it after the Apthorp Farm, of which the site used to be part. The Apthorp is a New York City designated landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Hace 4 días · As the Titanic sank, John Jacob Astor was reportedly seen “smoking a cigarette and chatting with another passenger.” This is how the British auction house Henry Aldridge Born in 1864, John Jacob Astor, fourth of his name, was an ancestor of a fur trader of German origin who amassed a colossal fortune in the 19th century, as detailed in this blog article from the American Library of Congress.
