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Nancy Witcher Astor, geboren als Nancy Witcher Langhorne ( Danville (Virginia), 19 mei 1879 - Grimsthorpe, 2 mei 1964) was een Britse politica en feministe van Amerikaanse komaf. Astor werd geboren als dochter van een spoorweg magnaat. In 1897 trouwde zij met Robert Gould Shaw bij wie zij een zoon kreeg. In 1903 scheidde zij van hem en vertrok ...
Viscountess Astor (1879–1964) was the first woman to take a seat in the British House of Commons. Nancy was born in Danville on May 19, 1879, to Chiswell Dabney Langhorne and Nancy Witcher (Keene )Langhorne. The Langhorne family lived in Richmond and at Mirador in Albemarle County. Her first marriage, in 1897 to Robert Gould Shaw of Boston ...
5 de mai. de 2024 · The fascinating story of Nancy Astor, the first woman elected to take a seat in the British Parliament. Born in 1879, hers was a fascinating life. From straitened beginnings in the Civil War ...
24 de fev. de 2020 · By Jennifer Scott,BBC News political reporter. In 1919, Lady Nancy Astor became the first woman to sit in Parliament. It is now commonplace to think of a woman speaking out in Parliament - even if ...
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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 ...
Astor, Nancy Witcher (1879–1964) First woman member of the House of Commons, who was known for her iconoclastic wit and the many controversies into which she entered. Name variations: Lady Astor, Nancy Viscountess Astor. Born Nancy Witcher Langhorne on May 19, 1879, at Danville, Virginia; died on May 2, 1964, at Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire ...
24 de fev. de 2020 · By Jennifer Scott,BBC News political reporter. In 1919, Lady Nancy Astor became the first woman to sit in Parliament. It is now commonplace to think of a woman speaking out in Parliament - even if ...
