Astor, Lady. Nancy Witcher b. May 19, 1879 d. May 2, 1964 Society Figure, Women's Pioneer. An American married to British wealth and position, she became the first woman to sit in, though not the first elected to, the House of Commons. Raised in Albemarle County, Virginia, by a Confederate veteran father made well-off in the railroad boom, she was a noted beauty in her time. She and her four sisters were collectively called the "Gibson Girls" from images created by her older sister Irene's husband, painter Charles Dana Gibson. Moving to England in the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford) Cliveden Chapel, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England
b. May 19, 1879 d. May 2, 1964