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Astor, Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount, Baron Astor Of Hever Castle

British politician

born May 19, 1879, New York City

died September 30, 1952, Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, England

member of Parliament (1910–19) and agricultural expert whose Cliveden home was a meeting place during the late 1930s for Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and supporters of his policy of “appeasement” toward Adolf Hitler.

He was the elder son of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, and a great-great-grandson of the American fur magnate John Jacob Astor. Waldorf Astor entered Parliament in 1910, acting as secretary to Prime Minister David Lloyd George in 1917. He retired from public office in 1919, his seat being taken by his wife, Nancy Witcher, Viscountess Astor, the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons. Astor was proprietor of The Observer, a London Sunday newspaper formerly owned by his father (to whose title he succeeded in 1919), from 1919 to 1945, when he turned it over to a trust.

An authority on agricultural problems, Astor became chairman in 1936 of a committee that was the progenitor of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

词条	Astor, Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount, Baron Astor Of Hever Castle
释义	Astor, Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount, Baron Astor Of Hever Castle British politician born May 19, 1879, New York City died September 30, 1952, Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, England member of Parliament (1910–19) and agricultural expert whose Cliveden home was a meeting place during the late 1930s for Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and supporters of his policy of “appeasement” toward Adolf Hitler. He was the elder son of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, and a great-great-grandson of the American fur magnate John Jacob Astor. Waldorf Astor entered Parliament in 1910, acting as secretary to Prime Minister David Lloyd George in 1917. He retired from public office in 1919, his seat being taken by his wife, Nancy Witcher, Viscountess Astor, the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons. Astor was proprietor of The Observer, a London Sunday newspaper formerly owned by his father (to whose title he succeeded in 1919), from 1919 to 1945, when he turned it over to a trust. An authority on agricultural problems, Astor became chairman in 1936 of a committee that was the progenitor of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
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