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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.
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….
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).
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.
Viscount Astor, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1917 for the financier and statesman William Waldorf Astor, 1st Baron Astor.
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.
WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOR, 1st Viscount (1848-1919) [ see 2.794 ], died at Brighton Oct. 18 1919. He was in 1916 raised to the peerage, and in 1917 was created a viscount. His eldest son, Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor , born in New York May 19 1879, was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford.
