Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
(1879-1964), Conservative politician; MP for Plymouth Sutton; former wife of R.G. Shaw, and later wife of 2nd Viscount Astor; daughter of Chiswell Dabney LanghorneNancy Witcher Astor (née Langhorne), Viscountess Astor
Sitter in 39 portraits
American-born politician; Astor came to England in 1904 and married her second husband Waldorf Astor, whom she succeeded as Conservative MP for the Sutton division of Plymouth in 1919. A champion of women's rights, she was the first woman MP to sit in the House of Commons (1919-45). Despite playing a large part in drawing the Conservative Party's attention towards the need to attract the female electorate, Astor was repeatedly overlooked for a position in Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's cabinet, and an attempt in 1929 to form a women's party with a number of female Labour politicians was unsuccessful, but she continued to hold her Plymouth seat for a further fifteen years.
Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor; Sir John Jacob Astor; Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 18 June 1923
NPG x18824
Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor; Sir John Jacob Astor; Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 18 June 1923
NPG x18825
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver press print, 1924
NPG x196075
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor; Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge; Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain
by Associated Press
vintage print, 22 October 1930
NPG x194221
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor; George Bernard Shaw
by ACME Newspictures, Inc.
vintage print, 1931
NPG x194183
Lady May Helen Emma Abel Smith (née Cambridge); Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
by Planet News
vintage print, December 1935
On display in Room 27 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG x194220
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor; Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 3 December 1935
NPG x31172
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor; Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 3 December 1935
NPG x31173
Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor; Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 3 December 1935
NPG x31174
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 3 December 1935
NPG x31175
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 3 December 1935
NPG x31176
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 3 December 1935
NPG x31177
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 3 December 1935
NPG x31178
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
by Dorothy Wilding
bromide print on tissue and card mount, 1937
NPG x13692
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide copy print, 1937
NPG x4360
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide print on tissue and card mount, 1937
NPG x135437
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1949
NPG x14014
Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor
by Dorothy Wilding
half-plate film negative, 1937
NPG x25987
Related People
- Nancy Phyllis Louise Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (née Astor), Countess of Ancaster (daughter)
- Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (husband)
- William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor (son)
- (Francis) David Langhorne Astor (son)
- Sir John Jacob Astor (son)
- Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor (son)
- Joyce Irene Grenfell (niece)
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