Lady Astor was a staunch conservative, but true to the contradictions that informed her entire life, she championed many women’s-rights and child-welfare causes. She served in Parliament until 1945.

It’s a striking example of Lady Astor’s deeply felt, if haphazardly exercised, noblesse oblige. Against a backdrop of spectacular wealth and privilege—her Virginian father, ...

Lady Astor was not a vegetable in a fancy hat. In dramatic, sometimes highly snarky opening statements yesterday, defense lawyers portrayed donations doyenne Brooke Astor as many things, even in he… ...

A century ago, Nancy Astor made the train journey from her constituency in Plymouth, a city on the coast of southwest England, to London. There, on Dec. 1, 1919, she took her seat in Parliament ...

In February 1955, Lady Astor (Nancy Langhorne Astor) visited lifelong friends Mr. and Mrs. Saunders Hobson at their home on Monument Avenue. Lady Astor was born in Danville but in 1905 moved to ...

Lady Astor had launched her first business, the eponymous jewellery shop Annabel Jones, in Knightsbridge, at the age of 19 and said the Sheffields “looked down” on her because she was Roman ...

In February 1955, Lady Astor (Nancy Langhorne Astor) visited lifelong friends Mr. and Mrs. Saunders Hobson at their home on Monument Avenue. Lady Astor was born in Danville but in 1905 moved to ...