Michael Astor

Michael Astor

The Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor (10 April 1916 – 28 February 1980) was a British Conservative Party politician and fourth child of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor and Nancy Witcher Langhorne, both Members of Parliament.

Astor was educated at Eton College. He gained the rank of Captain, serving in the Royal Artillery (Territorial Army). He was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for Surrey East in the 1945 General Election. He kept his seat in the 1950 election but did not stand in 1951.

He married 3 times. Annabel Jones, his stepdaughter from his second marriage, would go on to marry his nephew, William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor.

He wrote the books Tribal Feeling - his memoirs, published in 1963, and a novel Brand, published in 1968.

Marriages

  • Barbara McNeill (1942–1961), with whom he had four children.
  • Pandora Clifford (1961–1968).
  • Judith Innes (1970–1980), with whom he had a daughter, Polly in 1971

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Charles Campbell Emmott
Member of Parliament for East Surrey
19451951
Succeeded by
Charles Doughty



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