Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
May 19, 1879
Died
May 2, 1964
Age
84
Place of Birth
Danville, Virginia, US
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Nancy Astor
Acting
Biography
Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945. Astor was born in Danville, Virginia, and raised in Greenwood, Virginia. Her first marriage, to socialite Robert Gould Shaw II, was unhappy and ended in divorce. She then moved to England and married American-born Englishman Waldorf Astor in 1906. After her second husband succeed to his father's peerage and entered the House of Lords, she entered politics as a member of the Unionist Party (now the Co…
Also known as
Nancy Witcher Langhorne · Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor
