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William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (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.
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 Kingdom.
William Waldorf "Willy" Astor [1] (Nova Iorque, 31 de março de 1848 — Brighton, East Sussex, 18 de outubro de 1919) foi um rico advogado, político, empresário e editor de jornal americano.
Learn about the life and legacy of William Waldorf Astor, a wealthy American who emigrated to England and built Two Temple Place as his London office. Discover his family history, his interests, his philanthropy, and his controversies in this biography.
British Travel. City Guides. 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.
His son, William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919), was politically ambitious, but, after a stint in the New York state legislature and three years as U.S. minister to Italy, he moved permanently to England in 1890.
Their New York City namesakes are the famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, an Astor Row, Astor Court, Astor Place, and Astor Avenue in the Bronx, where the Astors stabled horses. The neighborhood of Astoria, Queens , was renamed to incite John Jacob Astor to invest there.
