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Waldorf Astor
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Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, DL (19 May 1879 – 30 September 1952) was an American-born English politician and newspaper proprietor. He was a member of the Astor family. He was active in minor political roles. He was devoted to charitable projects, and with his more famous wife Nancy became a prominent fixture in upper class English society.
Astor was born in New York City. He was the eldest son of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, and Mary Dahlgren Paul. His younger brothers were John Rudolph Astor (who died young) and John Jacob Astor V, Baron Astor of Hever. He spent much of his life traveling and living in Europe before his family settled in England in 1889. There Waldorf attended Eton College and New College, Oxford, where he excelled as a sportsman, earning accolades for both fencing and polo. For the Oxford University Polo Club he played side on side with Devereux Milburn in successive Varsity Matches, winning by a margin of 14 goals on both occasions.
In 1905, while a passenger on an Atlantic voyage returning to Britain, Astor met Nancy Langhorne Shaw, a divorced woman with a young son (Robert Gould Shaw III). Coincidentally, both he and Mrs Shaw shared the same birthdate, May 19, 1879, and both were American. After a rapid courtship, the two married in May 1906. As a wedding gift, Waldorf's father gave him and his bride the Sancy diamond and the family estate at Cliveden, which Nancy redecorated and modernised with the installation of electricity. Theirs proved a close marriage, and they had five children:
William Waldorf Astor II, 3rd Viscount Astor (born 13 August 1907, died 7 March 1966)
Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor (born 22 March 1909, died 2 March 1975)
Francis David Langhorne Astor (born 5 March 1912, died 6 December 2001)
Michael Langhorne Astor (born 10 April 1916, died 26 February 1980)
Major Sir John Jacob "Jakie" Astor VII (born 29 August 1918, died 10 September 2000)
Astor valued his wife; through her, Astor developed an interest in social reform.
Nancy also encouraged her husband to launch a career in politics.
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