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Lady Nancy Astor , born Nancy Witcher Langhorne , is a political woman British of American origin , born the May 19th 1879 with Danville (Virginia), dead the May 2nd 1964 with Grimsthorpe (Lincolnshire).

She remained in the history to have been the first woman having agreed to sit at the British Parlement, December 1919, having contributed under the colors of the Workers party, at the time of a by-election to the House of Commons.

Biography

Nancy Witcher Langhorne was the third of the five girls of Chiswell Dabney Langhorne (1843-1919), former owner of a plantation, and his wife born Anne Witcher.

In 1897, Nancy Witcher Langhorne married Robert Gould Shaw II, of which it had a son, but which it divorced in 1903.

Some time later, it is established with the the United Kingdom, where it became acquainted with William Walforf Astor (2nd Astor Viscount) (1879-1952), that it married in 1906. Its second husband presented the anecdotic characteristic to be born the same day as it, but with New York.

William Waldorf Astor was elected in 1910 with the House of Commons, under the label of the Conservative party, in a district of Plymouth. In 1918, always supported by the conservatives, it was elected in a close district.

October 18th 1919, the death of the father-in-law of Nancy Astor, William Waldorf Astor (1st Astor Viscount), made 1st Astor Viscount by the king George V in 1917, involved the devolution of the title on the head of his/her son, thus making it sit at the House of Lords. As of this moment, the seat of deputy of Plymouth became vacant, involving a by-election, in which the wife of the new Viscount decided to take part, but with a political affiliation opposed to that of his/her husband.

November 28th 1919, Nancy Astor was elected with the House of Commons, where it started to sit as of December.

Nancy Astor was not however the first woman to be elected at the British Parliament. She had been briefly preceded there, on December 14th 1918, by the Irishwoman Constance Markievicz, at this moment incarcarée with the prison of Holloway and which, with its release in 1919, refused to sit at the Communes, preferring to devote itself to the Irish policy while becoming, on April 2nd 1919, Minister for Labor in the republican government directed by Eamon de Valera

Lady Astor is known to have said one day to Churchill: “If you were my husband, I would put poison in your coffee. ” Which answered him: “If you were my wife, I would certainly drink it. ”

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