ASTOR, LADY NANCY WITCHER

(1879), wife of Lord William Waldorf Astor, and a British M.P. (b. Danville, Va.). She is the daughter of Chis well Dabney Langhorne and a member of an old Virginia family. In 1897 she married Robert Gould Shaw, of Boston, Ma ., from whom she was divorced, in 1903. Three years later she married her present husband, then William Waldorf Astor, Jr. In 1919, when her husband succeeded to his father’s title, and therefore gave up his seat in the House of Commons to enter the House of Lords, Lady Astor was nominated candidate (from Plymouth) for the vacancy, on a Coalitionist-Unionist platform. She was elected Nov. 28, 1919, being the first woman to enter Parliament. In the fall of 1922, at the elections attending the overturn of the Lloyd George Liberal Cabinet, she was again returned, as a Unionist. Lady Astor has paid several visits to her native country during the past few years.