William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor[1] (31 March 1848 – 18 October 1919) was an American-English attorney, politician, hotelier, publisher and philanthropist. Astor was a scion of the very wealthy Astor family of New York City.

Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, DL (19 May 1879 – 30 September 1952) was an American-born English politician and newspaper proprietor. He was a member of the Astor family. He was active in minor political roles.

For many years, the members of the Astor family were known as "the landlords of New York". [10] . Their New York City namesakes are the famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, [11] and Astor Row, Astor Court, Astor Place, and Astor Avenue in the Bronx, where the Astors stabled horses.

Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor was a member of Parliament (1910–19) and an agricultural expert whose Cliveden home was a meeting place during the late 1930s for Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and supporters of his policy of “appeasement” toward Adolf Hitler.

William Waldorf Astor was born in New York City in 1848 as the only child of John Jacob Astor III. Only two generations earlier, his great grandfather, John Jacob Astor I, had left the village of Walldorf, near Heidelberg in South West Germany, to find a future for himself across the Atlantic.

Major The Rt. Hon. Waldorf Astor M.P., D.L., 2nd Viscount Astor. Born in New York, his father famously fell out with the other side of the Astor family and moved this branch to England. Waldorf was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford.

Representing the senior line of the Astors, on his father's death in 1890 he inherited a fortune of about $150 million and collected rents in New York City that amounted to $6 million a year. In 1889, he was listed among the 52 "Patriarchs" of New York society.

Waldorf Astor (1879–1952) served in the British Parliament (1910–19), and his Cliveden home was a meeting place during the late 1930s for Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and supporters of his policy of “appeasement” toward Adolf Hitler.

Astor’s was a property empire which held this misery cheek by jowl with the grandest hotels in the world: the Waldorf and the Astoria, which would eventually merge. His Two Temple Place project began almost immediately upon his arrival in the UK, starting in 1892 and completing in 1895.

2024年7月9日 · John Jacob Astor III and William Backhouse Astor Jr. cofounded the Waldorf-Astoria after a feud. Modern Astor descendants have been politicians, philanthropists, and British royal associates.