- Born
- Died
- Birth nameNancy Witcher Langhorne
- Nickname
- The Member for Berlin
- Nancy Astor was born on May 19, 1879 in Danville, Virginia, USA. She was married to Waldorf Astor and Robert Gould Shaw II. She died on May 2, 1964 in Grimsthorpe Castle, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England, UK.
- SpousesWaldorf Astor(April 19, 1906 - September 30, 1952) (his death, 5 children)Robert Gould Shaw II(October 27, 1897 - 1903) (divorced, 1 child)
- Nancy Astor once said to Winston Churchill, "If I was your wife I'd poison your coffee!" He replied, "If I was your husband I'd drink it.".
- Her first husband was a cousin of Robert Gould Shaw.
- Grandmother of Jane Willoughby de Eresby and William Astor.
- First woman to be elected to Parliament (for Plymouth Sutton, November 28, 1919 - July 5, 1945).
- Subject of "Nancy Astor: Portrait of a Pioneer" (1980) by John Grigg.
- The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
- On sexual politics: I married beneath me -- all women do.
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