Violet Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever

Violet Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever DStJ (née Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound; 28 May 1889 – 3 January 1965), styled Lady Charles Fitzmaurice between 1909 and 1914 and Lady Charles Mercer Nairne between 1914 and 1918, was an English aristocrat.

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

(1889-05-28)28 May 1889
London, England[1]
Died3 January 1965(1965-01-03) (aged 75)
Spouses
(m. 1909; died 1914)
ChildrenMary Margaret Elizabeth Petty-Fitzmaurice
George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne
Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever
Hugh Waldorf Astor
John Astor
Parent(s)Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
Mary Caroline Grey
RelativesSee Astor family

Origins

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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,[2] by his wife Mary Caroline Grey, a daughter of General Charles Grey, the second son of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey.[3]

Marriages and children

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She married twice:

Death

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She died on 3 January 1965 at her villa in Pégomas, near Grasse[8] in the South of France.

References

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  1. ^ 1911 England Census
  2. ^ "Violet Mary (née Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound), Lady Astor of Hever - National Portrait Gallery". npg.org.uk. National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  3. ^   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.
  4. ^ Harrison, Rosina (2011). Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor. Penguin. p. 48. ISBN 9781101565704. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  5. ^ Gottlieb, Julie V. (2016). 'Guilty Women', Foreign Policy, and Appeasement in Inter-War Britain. Springer. p. 103. ISBN 9781137316608. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  6. ^ "No. 40692". The London Gazette. 24 January 1956. p. 499.
  7. ^ The Peerage, entry for 1st Lord Astor
  8. ^ "Lady Violet Astor Dies". The Age. 5 January 1965. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
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