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.

Astor was a friend of Ian Fleming and dined with the author of the James Bond series on the day he died, the 11th of August 1964.

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

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Michael Astor

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Campbell Emmott	Member of Parliament for East Surrey 1945–1951	Succeeded by Charles Doughty