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Baron Astor of Hever, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [2] It was created in 1956 for John Jacob Astor, a prominent newspaper proprietor and Conservative politician. He was the fourth child of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor. Lord Astor of Hever was succeeded in 1971 by his eldest ...
John Jacob " Johnny " Astor VIII, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever, PC, DL (born 16 June 1946), is an English businessman and politician from the Astor family. He sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative hereditary peer from 1986 to his retirement in 2022. Astor was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence from 2010 to 2015.
Eton College. New College, Oxford. Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob Astor V, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, DL (20 May 1886 – 19 July 1971) was an American-born English newspaper proprietor, politician, sportsman, and military officer. He was a member of the Astor family. [1]
He was created 1 st Baron Astor of Hever in 1956. In 1962 John Jacob placed the Castle in trust for his son Gavin and retired to France where he died in 1971. In 1963 Gavin opened the Castle and gardens to the public for the first time.
In 1916, Astor married Lady Violet Mary [d. 1965], widow of Lord Charles George Francis Mercer Nairne and youngest daughter of the 4th Earl of Minto. They had three sons--Gavin (who succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Astor of Hever), Hugh Waldorf, and John. Display filters. Show 30 60 90 results per page.
Astor family, wealthy American family whose fortune, rooted in the fur trade, came to be centred on real estate investments in New York City. John Jacob Astor, detail of an oil painting by Gilbert Stuart, 1794; in the Brook Club, New York. John Jacob Astor (1763–1848) was the founder of the family fortune.
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In 1956 he was created Baron Astor of Hever but six years later, in order to avoid the penal death duties in England, he took up residence in France where he subsequently died. In the 1908 Olympic racquets tournament, John Astor and his partner Vane Pennell scored a comfortable win over Edmund Bury and Cecil Browning in the doubles. In the ...
