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Violet Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever

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The Lady Astor of Hever
Violet Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever
Born
Violet Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound

(1889-05-28)28 May 1889
Died3 January 1965(1965-01-03) (aged 75)
Spouse(s)
(m. 1909; died 1914)

ChildrenMary Margaret Elizabeth Petty-Fitzmaurice
George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne
Gavin Astor
Hugh Waldorf Astor
John Astor
Parent(s)Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
Mary Caroline Grey
RelativesSee Astor family

Violet Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (28 May 1889 – 3 January 1965) (Lady Astor), Dame of the Venerable Order of St John, 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:

Death

She died on 3 January 1965 at her villa in Pégomas, near Grasse[7] in the South of France.

References

  1. ^ "Violet Mary (née Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound), Lady Astor of Hever - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  2. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Minto, Earls of". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 564.
  3. ^ Harrison, Rosina (2011). Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor. Penguin. p. 48. ISBN 9781101565704. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  4. ^ Gottlieb, Julie V. (2016). ‘Guilty Women’, Foreign Policy, and Appeasement in Inter-War Britain. Springer. p. 103. ISBN 9781137316608. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  5. ^ "No. 40692". The London Gazette. 24 January 1956. p. 499.
  6. ^ The Peerage, entry for 1st Lord Astor
  7. ^ "Lady Violet Astor Dies". The Age. 5 January 1965. Retrieved 12 June 2019.