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Viscount Astor. 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. He had already been created Baron Astor, of Hever Castle in the County of Kent, in 1916, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
- The Hon. William Astor
- William Waldorf Astor, 1st Baron Astor
- Baron Astor
- William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor
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 .
- Politician, businessman
- John Major
- The Astor fortune was partly founded on drug smuggling. The wealth of the Astor family originated in fur trading, guided by the intelligent but ruthless business tactics of their American founder, John Jacob Astor I. Having tried his hand at being a butcher like his father and an instrument maker like his brother, John I emigrated to America in 1783.
- John Jacob Astor I’s wife was so good at the business, she reportedly charged her husband $500 an hour. John married Sarah Cox Todd in 1785. She was the daughter of his landlady—and had a $300 dowry, plus connections to sea captains, merchants, shop owners, and ship owners.
- Caroline Schermerhorn Astor ran America’s social hierarchy, known as the “four hundred.” In the New York of the 1880s and 1890s, if you wanted to be accepted into society, it was not enough just to be wealthy.
- The family was torn apart by a feud about who would be called Mrs Astor. John Jacob Astor I’s second son, William Backhouse Astor Sr., inherited his fortune; he in turn passed it to his two sons, John III and William Backhouse Jr.
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Columbia Law School. William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor [1] (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. He moved to England in 1891, became a British subject in 1899, and was ...
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- Republican (US)
- John Jacob Astor III, Charlotte Augusta Gibbes
- The 2nd Viscount Astor
6 days ago · Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (born May 19, 1879, New York City—died September 30, 1952, Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, England) was a member of Parliament (1910–19) and an agricultural expert whose Cliveden home was a meeting place during the late 1930s for Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and supporters of his policy of “appeasement” toward Adolf Hitler.
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Mar 14, 2013 · The home, a sea-facing mansion, was built in 1910 for Viscount William Waldorf Astor and his wife, Nancy. The viscount, whose father built the Waldorf Astoria, the New York hotel, belonged to one ...
Other articles where William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, of Hever Castle is discussed: 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…
