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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 Temporal in the House of Lords. He is a member of the Astor family , which is known for its prominence in business, society, and politics in both the United States and the United ...
- Politician, businessman
- John Major
William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor [1] (31 March 1848 – 18 October 1919) was an American-English attorney, politician, businessman (hotels and newspapers), and philanthropist. Astor was a scion of the very wealthy Astor family of New York City.
- Heart failure
- Republican (US)
- John Jacob Astor III, Charlotte Augusta Gibbes
- The 2nd Viscount Astor
4 de sept. de 2019 · Esto no gustó a su sobrino, William Waldorf Astor, hijo de John Jacob Astor III, quien consideraba que el título correspondía a su esposa, ahora que él era el cabeza de familia.
También en 1890, comenzó la construcción del lujoso Hotel Waldorf, sobre el lugar de su antigua residencia (su primo, John Jacob Astor IV, construyó el contiguo Hotel Astoria en 1897, y el complejo se convirtió en el Hotel Waldorf-Astoria. William, aunque era el dueño, lo visitó sólo una vez en su vida).
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- William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor
26 de mar. de 2011 · William Waldorf and John Jacob Astor IV were cousins, note, and their hotels were adjacent, and joined by a corridor, hence the Waldorf-Astoria, which – just to confuse matters further...
Other notable Astors include, later, the incendiary Nancy Astor who appears on the scene in 1906 and was the first woman in Parliament, as well as John Jacob Astor IV, a cousin of Two Temple Place’s Astor, who died on the Titanic, honeymooning with his second wife, thirty years his junior.
Inheriting the vast fortunes of the Astor family was just the beginning for William Waldorf Astor. Educated and raised in Europe, he found the - Anglotopia Magazine, Edwardian Era, Great Britons, Interwar Period, Modern Britain.
