Viscounts Astor, the Cliveden Astors

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William Waldorf Astor, Viscount and founder of Cliveden Astors and the Barons of Hever

… ownership of the Observer and thanks to generous gifts to the Conservative Party, William Waldorf Astor soon became an influent member of the English Aristocracy, being made a Baronet in 1916 and a Viscount in 1917. This gave him access to the House of Lords, the Upper House of Parliament in England, which came closest to Astors ideal form of democratic representation, where the well born have their place by merit or inheritance, rather by the more ephemeral popular vote. There is no doubt that Viscount Astor felt more at home in Edwardian England than in America …

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