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English aristocrat
Violet Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever
DStJ (née Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound , styled Lady Charles Fitzmaurice between 1909 and 1914 and Lady Charles Mercer Nairne between 1914 and 1918; 28 May 1889 – 3 January 1965), was an English
aristocrat .
Origins
Violet Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound was born on 28 May 1889, the third of the five children of
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto ,
Viceroy and Governor-General of India and
Governor General of Canada ,
[1] by his wife
Mary Caroline Grey , a daughter of
General
Charles Grey , the second son of
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey .
[2]
Marriages and children
She married twice:
Firstly, on 20 January 1909, to
Lord Charles Fitzmaurice (later Mercer Nairne;
killed in action on 30 October 1914 in
World War I ) the younger son of
Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne by his wife Lady
Maud Evelyn Hamilton , a daughter of
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn by his wife Lady
Louisa Jane Russell , a daughter of
John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford . By her first husband she had issue one son and one daughter:
Secondly, on 28 August 1916, she married
John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever (1886–1971), of
Hever Castle in Kent and of Carlton House Terrace
[3] in Westminster, the youngest son of
William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor . He supported Neville Chamberlain
[4] and was elevated to the Peerage on 21 January 1956 as
Baron Astor "of Hever".
[5] She moved with her husband to France in 1962. By Astor she had three sons:
[6]
Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever (1918–1984), eldest son and heir of his father, who married Lady
Irene Haig , the youngest daughter of
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig , by whom he had five children including
John Jacob Astor VIII ("Johnny" Astor)
Lt. Col.
Hon. Hugh Waldorf Astor (1920–1999), who married Emily Lucy Kinloch, a niece of
Diana Vreeland , and had five children.
Hon.
John Astor (1923–1987) , who married Diana Kathleen Drummond, a grand-niece of
Herbert Samuel Holt , and had three children.
Death
She died on 3 January 1965 at her villa in
Pégomas , near
Grasse
[7] in the
South of France .
References
^
"Violet Mary (née Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound), Lady Astor of Hever - National Portrait Gallery" . npg.org.uk .
National Portrait Gallery, London . Retrieved 12 June 2019 .
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). "
Minto, Earls of ".
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 564.
^ Harrison, Rosina (2011).
Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor . Penguin. p. 48.
ISBN
9781101565704 . Retrieved 12 June 2019 .
^ Gottlieb, Julie V. (2016).
'Guilty Women', Foreign Policy, and Appeasement in Inter-War Britain . Springer. p. 103.
ISBN
9781137316608 . Retrieved 12 June 2019 .
^
"No. 40692" .
The London Gazette . 24 January 1956. p. 499.
^
The Peerage, entry for 1st Lord Astor
^
"Lady Violet Astor Dies" .
The Age . 5 January 1965. Retrieved 12 June 2019 .
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