Astor, Nancy Witcher (Langhorne), Viscountess
World Encyclopedia | Date: 2005
Astor, Nancy Witcher (Langhorne), Viscountess (1879–1964) British politician, b. USA, the first woman elected to the House of Commons (1919–45). A Conservative, she advocated temperance, educational reform, and women's and children's welfare. In the 1930s she and her husband Viscount William Waldorf Astor headed a group of influential proponents of
appeasement toward Nazi Germany.
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