Lord astor biography

English businessman and politician (born 1951)

William Waldorf Astor III, 4th Viscount Astor (born 27 December 1951) is an English businessman and politician who sits as a ConservativehereditaryLord Temporal in the House of Lords. He is a member of the Astor family, which is known for its prominence in business, society, and politics in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

Biography

Astor was a Lord-in-waiting (a House of Lords whip) from 1990 to 1993. He was then made a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Social Security. In 1994, he moved to the Department of National Heritage where he served until leaving the government in 1995.

He was a member of the Founding Council of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.^[1]

Viscount Astor is Chairman of Silvergate Media and director of Networkers Plc (since 2007) and trustee of Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham.

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William Waldorf Astor (1848-1919)

He was born at 338 Fifth Avenue. Representing the senior line of the Astors, on his father's death in 1890 he inherited a fortune of about $150 million and collected rents in New York City that amounted to $6 million a year. In 1889, he was listed among the 52 "Patriarchs" of New York society.

He and his first cousin, Jack Astor, were heirs to the family fortune, but despite having grown up as next-door neighbors they hardly knew one another and yet despised one another due to a feud started by their parents. The Astors may have been fabulously rich, but their reputation was one of self-serving slum landlords: "They drew rent money from festering tenements that harbored three-quarters of the city's population in conditions that put Calcutta to shame". Willy was ambitious, but "prickly" and determined to make a name for himself aside from his fortune by entering politics. He was elected to the New York State Assembly and then the New York State

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William Waldorf Astor

American-British attorney, politician, businessman, and philanthropist

For other uses, see William Waldorf Astor (disambiguation).

William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor^[1] (31 March 1848 – 18 October 1919) was an American-English attorney, politician, hotelier, publisher and philanthropist. Astor was a scion of the very wealthy Astor family of New York City. He moved to England in 1891, became a British subject in 1899, and was made a peer as Baron Astor in 1916 and Viscount Astor in 1917 for his contributions to war charities. The census-designated place of Waldorf, Maryland is named after him.

Early life and education

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William Waldorf Astor was born in New York City. He was the only child of the financier and philanthropist John Jacob Astor III (1822–1890) and Charlotte Augusta Gibbes (1825–1887). He studied in Germany and in Italy beneath the care of private tutors and a governess.

In his early adult years, Astor returned to th