The Hon. Michael Langhorne Astor (10 April 1916 – 28 February 1980) was a British

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 Conservative Party

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 politician and fourth child of Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor

Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor

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 and Nancy Witcher Langhorne, both Members of Parliament.

Astor was educated at Eton College

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. He gained the rank of Captain

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, serving in the Royal Artillery

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 (Territorial Army).
He was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament

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 for Surrey

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 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

Annabel Astor, Viscountess Astor

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, his stepdaughter from his second marriage, would go on to marry his nephew, William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor

William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor

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He wrote the books Tribal Feeling - his memoirs, published in 1963, and a novel Brand, published in 1968.

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

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