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6 days ago · The pearl and diamond brooch (lot 786) was the property of Nancy, Viscountess Astor who served as the Conservative MP for Plymouth for 25 years, campaigning for women’s rights and educational reform.
Sep 30, 2024 · This summer, our undergraduate student Courtney Murch spent time in the Reading Special Collections working with the papers of Nancy Astor, the first woman MP to take her seat in Parliament. Turning 18 in 2022 did not only mean that I was going to university, but it also meant that I was able to vote.…
Sep 24, 2024 · Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician and the first female Member of Parliament (MP) to take her seat. Astor was an American citizen who moved to England at age 26 and married Waldorf Astor.
Sep 26, 2024 · Waldorf Astor entered Parliament in 1910, acting as secretary to Prime Minister David Lloyd George in 1917. He retired from public office in 1919, his seat being taken by his wife, Nancy Witcher, Viscountess Astor, the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons.
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Sep 21, 2024 · Astor’s wife, Nancy (1879–1964), was the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. Vincent Astor (1891–1959), son of the John Jacob Astor who built the well-known hotels, departed markedly from Astor family conservatism.
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2 days ago · From the 1930s, Waldorf and his wife Nancy Astor hosted fabulous parties at the country house, and it became a haunt for politicians, literati and celebrities from Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan to President Roosevelt and George Bernard Shaw.
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1 day ago · Succeeded her husband J. C. C. Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson as MP after he became a member of the House of Lords after being raised to the peerage as Viscount Davidson. Daughter of Willoughby Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson. In 1963 she was created a life peer as Baroness Northchurch, of Chiswick in the County of Middlesex.
