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13 de jun. de 2024 · Panorama spoke to Nancy Astor, the first female MP to take her seat in 1919, as she recalled her experiences of a life in Parliament.
I'm reading the excellent biography, "Nancy" by Adrian Fort, but I keep finding myself puzzled over how she sometimes acted or talked to people. And I'm wondering, is this mainly because of how she grew up, or how she lived as a young woman, or could there have been an underlying health condition that could have had an effect, but ...
13 de jun. de 2024 · Lady Nancy Astor was the first woman to take her seat in parliament; her husband, Waldorf, was the sitting MP and (supported by him) she won his Sutton Plymouth seat at a by-election in 1919.
Hace 4 días · NANCY ASTOR. Lady Nancy Astor Conservative, candidate for Sutton district of Plymouth in the 1924 General Election, seen outside her London residence. (Image: Mirrorpix)
26 de jun. de 2024 · A few of the hundreds of thousands of these political women, like Maggie Wintringham and Nancy Astor, were MPs; others became local councillors. However, women’s access to traditional areas of political power was limited, even when Britain had its first woman prime minister in 1979, she was one of only 19 women MPs in parliament.
14 de jun. de 2024 · American-born Nancy Astor was the MP for Plymouth, the first woman in British history to take a seat in Westminster. Her husband Waldorf, the second Viscount Astor, had previously held the seat until the death of his father compelled him to go into the House of Lords.
1 de jul. de 2024 · Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician and the first female Member of Parliament (MP) to take her seat. Astor was an American citizen who moved to England at age 26 and married Waldorf Astor.
