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The Astor family achieved prominence in business, society, and politics in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 19th and 20th centuries. With German roots, some of their ancestry goes back to the Italian and Swiss Alps, the Astors settled in Germany, first appearing in North America in the 18th century with John Jacob Astor, one of the wealthiest people in history.
William Waldorf Astor was one of those rare beings who passed into legend during his own lifetime. The richest man in the world by the early 20th century, he was a great grandson of Johann Jakob Astor, the illiterate German butcher’s son who immigrated to New York in 1783, founded the famous Astor dynasty, and became the first American multi-millionaire.
Astor, Waldorf (politician) Waldorf Astor was born in New York on 19 May 1879. His father, William Waldorf Astor, settled the family in England in 1889 and was created Viscount Astor in 1917. Waldorf Astor was educated at Eton and Oxford. In 1906, he married Mrs. Nancy Shaw and was given the house called Cliveden, near Taplow, Buckinghamshire ...
William Waldorf Astor. William Waldorf Astor (ur. 19 maja 1879 w Nowym Jorku, zm. 30 września 1952 w Taplow) – brytyjski polityk i magnat prasowy. Był synem Williama Waldorfa „Willy'ego” Astora i Mary Dahlgren Paul. Uczęszczał do Eton College i New College w Oksfordzie. W 1906 ożenił się z Nancy Astor.
2 de fev. de 2024 · Waldorf Astor, segundo vizconde de Astor, sirvió en el Parlamento británico. Cuando dejó el Parlamento en 1919, su esposa Nancy Astor tomó su asiento, convirtiéndose en la primera mujer en ocupar un puesto en la Cámara de los Comunes británica. Brooke Astor reinó en la sociedad neoyorquina durante gran parte del siglo XX.
William Waldorf Astor Astor, 1st Viscount, 1848–1919, American-British financier, b. New York City, educated in Germany and in Italy and at the Columbia law school; son of John Jacob Astor (1822–90). He served as a state assemblyman and senator, but his political career was halted by his failure to win an election to the U.S. Congress.
John Jacob Astor (1864–1912) was a cousin of William Waldorf Astor and a great-grandson of the fur trader who had founded the family fortune. An inventor and a science fiction novelist, he was also responsible for building several great New York City hotels: the Astoria (later combined with the Waldorf), the Knickerbocker, and the St. Regis.
