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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Racquets Players at the 1908 Summer Olympics, John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, Edmund Bury, Evan Noel, Vane Pennell, Henry Brougham, Henry Leaf, Cecil Browning. Excerpt: Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever DL (20 May 1886 19 July 1971) was a British military officer, statesman, a newspaper proprietor, and a member of the prominent Astor family. He is sometimes referred to as "John Jacob Astor V", especially in standard genealogies of the Astor family. Lord Astor of Hever was born in New York City in 1886, the fourth child of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (18481919) and Mary Dahlgren Paul (18581894). He was a boy of five when his family left New York to live in England. He was raised on an estate purchased by his father at Cliveden-on-Thames in Buckinghamshire and was educated at Eton College and at New College, Oxford. John Jacob Astor represented Great Britain in rackets at the 1908 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal in the men's doubles competition together with Vane Pennell, and winning bronze in the men's singles event. He served in the Life Guards and was Aide-de-Camp to Baron Hardinge, Viceroy of India between 1911 and 1914. He served in the British army during World War I, rising to the rank of Lt. Colonel and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur as a Chevalier. He held the office of Lieutenant of the City of London in 1926. He was Honorary Colonel of the Kent and Sussex Royal Guard Artillery, between 1927 and 1946 and Honorary Colonel of the 23rd London Regiment, between 1928 and 1949. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Kent from 1936 to 1962 and was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 5th Battalion, City of London (Home Guard) between 1940 and 1944. On 28 August 1916 married Violet Mar... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=544389 ... Read more

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This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format.Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship. ... Read more

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Chapters: John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, Edmund Bury, Evan Noel, Vane Pennell, Henry Brougham, Henry Leaf, Cecil Browning. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever DL (20 May 1886 19 July 1971) was a British military officer, statesman, a newspaper proprietor, and a member of the prominent Astor family. He is sometimes referred to as "John Jacob Astor V", especially in standard genealogies of the Astor family. Lord Astor of Hever was born in New York City in 1886, the fourth child of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor (18481919) and Mary Dahlgren Paul (18581894). He was a boy of five when his family left New York to live in England. He was raised on an estate purchased by his father at Cliveden-on-Thames in Buckinghamshire and was educated at Eton College and at New College, Oxford. John Jacob Astor represented Great Britain in rackets at the 1908 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal in the men's doubles competition together with Vane Pennell, and winning bronze in the men's singles event. He served in the Life Guards and was Aide-de-Camp to Baron Hardinge, Viceroy of India between 1911 and 1914. He served in the British army during World War I, rising to the rank of Lt. Colonel and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur as a Chevalier. He held the office of Lieutenant of the City of London in 1926. He was Honorary Colonel of the Kent and Sussex Royal Guard Artillery, between 1927 and 1946 and Honorary Colonel of the 23rd London Regiment, between 1928 and 1949. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Kent from 1936 to 1962 and was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 5th Battalion, City of London (Home Guard) between 1940 and 1944. On 28 August 1916 married Violet Mary Elliot-Murray-...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=544389 ... Read more

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Chapters: John Jacob Astor, Astoria, Oregon, Mackinac Island, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Hever Castle, Astor, Florida, New York Public Library, Cliveden, Astoria, Queens, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Brooke Astor, the New School at West Heath, Anthony Dryden Marshall, John Jacob Astor Iv, William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor, John Jacob Astor Vi, Astor Expedition, Vincent Astor, Trinity Church Cemetery, Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, David Astor, Ivan Sergeyevich Obolensky, John Jacob Astor Iii, Robert Joseph Collier, William Backhouse Astor, Sr., Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Louis Zborowski, Astor Place, Madeleine Astor, Ava Alice Muriel Astor, William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, John Astor, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever, William Backhouse Astor, Jr., William A. Chanler, Robert Winthrop Chanler, John Dryden Kuser, Charles Astor Bristed, Jakie Astor, John Winthrop Chanler, Astor Cup, John F. Dryden, William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor, Bronwen Astor, Janet Gordon-Lennox, Countess of March and Kinrara, Michael Astor, Henry Astor, James John Van Alen, Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever, Tadd Roosevelt, Violet Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever, Irene Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever, Elizabeth Astor, Baroness Astor of Hever, Enzo Fiermonte. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 291. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH, (19 May 1879 2 May 1964) was the first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the British House of Commons. (Constance Markiewicz was the first woman elected to the House of Commons in December 1918 after running for the Sinn Féin party in 1918 General Election, but in line with Sinn Féin's abstentionist policy she did not take her seat. Markiewicz was a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=59363 ... Read more

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Volume VII. Of Early Western Travels 1748-1846. A Series Of Annotated Reprints Of Some Of The Best And Rarest Contemporary Volumes Of Travel, Descriptive Of The Aborigines And Social And Economic Conditions In The Middle And Far West, During The Period Of Early American Settlement. ... Read more