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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 19 May 1879

Died: 30 September 1952

Peerages

2nd Viscount Astor of Hever Castle - 18 October 1919

father of William Waldorf Astor

son of William Waldorf Astor

father of Michael Langhorne Astor

father of John Jacob Astor

husband of Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor

Education

Eton College

New College, Oxford

Appointments

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Food	1918	1919
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health	1919	1921

Elections fought

15 January 1910		Plymouth	Conservative Party	7,650	48.13
7 December 1910		Plymouth	Conservative Party	8,113	52.47
14 December 1918		Plymouth Sutton	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	17,091	65.96
18 October 1919 Succession of Hon Waldorf Astor to the Peerage - 2nd Viscount Astor.