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William Waldorf Astor, I visconte Astor (New York, 31 marzo 1848 – Brighton, 18 ottobre 1919) è stato un avvocato e politico statunitense con cittadinanza britannica. Si trasferì con la famiglia in Inghilterra nel 1891 , diventando cittadino britannico nel 1899 ; gli vennero ivi conferiti i titoli di barone Astor nel 1916 e di visconte Astor nel 1917 per i suoi contributi a enti di ...
2 de mai. de 2024 · Waldorf Astor was appointed Lord Mayor of Plymouth in 1939, despite not being a member of the city council – an honour which had been given only once before to Sir Francis Drake. Representing Plymouth as an MP and as Lady Mayoress during the Second World War, Nancy Astor’s life and work were closely identified with the city and in 1959 she was made an honorary Freeman of the City of Plymouth.
The Waldorf-Astoria originated as two hotels, built side by side by feuding relatives, on Fifth Avenue in New York, New York, United States. Built in 1893 and expanded in 1897, the hotels were razed in 1929 to make way for construction of the Empire State Building. Their successor, the current Waldorf Astoria New York, was built on Park Avenue ...
9 min read. On 1st December 1919, Nancy Astor took her oath in the House of Commons, a momentous day as she became the first female MP to sit in parliament. Born in Virginia in 1879, Nancy Langhorne, as she was known then, was part of a large family and daughter of a businessman. Nancy’s father at the time of her birth had been struggling to ...
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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. Ele se mudou com sua família para a Inglaterra em 1891, tornou-se cidadão britânico em 1899, e foi feito Par do Reino em 1916 por suas contribuições para instituições de caridade de guerra.
In Astor family. 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. He became a British subject in 1899, and in 1917 he became 1st….
