politician
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor.
first female Member of Parliament to take her seat (1879-1964)
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About Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor 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.
Everything about Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor →- Occupation
- politician, socialite, suffragist
- Position held
- member of the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 36th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 34th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United States, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- May 19, 1879
- Died
- May 2, 1964