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28 de nov. de 2023 · Lady Astor died 2 May 1964, just a couple of weeks shy of her 85th birthday, at Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire. Sign up to British Heritage Travel's daily newsletter here! On Nov 28, 1919, she was elected Britain's first female Member of Parliament, but there was more to Lady Nancy Astor than politics, as Deanna O’Connor explains.
28 de nov. de 2018 · Today is the 99 th anniversary of Lady Nancy Astor’s election to Parliament in a by-election in Plymouth, becoming the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons. This milestone is being marked with #Astor100: an ambitious series of public events, learning resources, and the erection of a statue in her Plymouth constituency.
1 de jul. de 2020 · Nancy Astor was the first woman elected to the House of Commons, in 1919. She succeeded her husband in his Plymouth constituency when he inherited a seat in the House of Lords, so avoided the discrimination which for decades prevented the selection of many women for winnable seats. She was not a suffragist, or, when elected, a feminist, but the hostility of many men, in and out of parliament ...
Nancy Astor was born Nancy Witcher Langhorne on May 19, 1879, in Danville, Virginia, in the United States. Her mother was Nancy Witcher Keene, and her father was Chiswell Dabney Langhorne. The former business of her father had depended at least in part upon slave labor and had been badly damaged by the effects of the American Civil War .
Nancy Witcher Langhorne, vizcondesa Astor, CH (Danville, Virginia, 19 de mayo de 1879-Lincolnshire, Inglaterra, 2 de mayo de 1964) fue una política británica de origen estadounidense. El 1 de diciembre de 1919 se convirtió en la primera mujer que ocupó un escaño en la Cámara de los Comunes del Parlamento Británico.
A Political Pioneer. American-born Nancy Astor (1879–1964), née Langhorne, succeeded her husband Waldorf Astor as Conservative MP for Plymouth Sutton in 1919, becoming the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. She continued to represent the Plymouth Sutton constituency until her retirement in 1945.
28 de nov. de 2019 · More than £125,000 was raised by the Nancy Astor Statue Appeal for a bronze statue to be cast by sculptor Hayley Gibbs. The unveiling of the statue took place outside Lady Astor's former home.
