A Cartier turquoise and diamond tiara owned by the first woman to take a seat in the House of Commons is expected to fetch ...

100 years on since she was elected to the House of Commons, Lady Nancy Astor is being remembered with a bronze statue outside her family's former home in Plymouth. Recognised as the first female ...

Lady Astor held the Plymouth seat for 26 years between 1919 and 1945. Nancy Astor ... had been elected the previous year in 1918, but was unable to take her seat due to her being a member of ...

But who was Nancy Astor, when was she elected, and what did she achieve ... though she has not been documented as being influential in anti-Semitic or pro-Nazi policies. She once told Joachim ...

Nancy Astor became the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons, when she was elected Plymouth Sutton ... Plymouth in 1939-44 - without even being a member of the city council.

Image: Nancy Astor speaking in front of Plymouth town hall after being elected in 1919 Lady Astor was also commemorated with a Great Western Railway train named after her which travelled from ...

Tactless exuberance was not uncommon for Astor, the first woman elected to the House ... in gettin’ rid of my own. . .” Being an outsider seemed to suit Nancy (as it did that other divorcee ...

A complex character and central to the so-called Cliveden set, Nancy Astor rose to ... an Irish Republican elected in 1918 who, in line with Sinn Fein’s abstentionist policies, did not take her seat.

Nancy Astor was elected to represent Plymouth Sutton for ... Last year marked the centenary of women winning the right to vote and being able to stand as MPs.

When a bronze statue was unveiled outside of the former family home of Lady Nancy Astor in Plymouth in November ... While Markievicz was certainly elected as a MP, she did not recognise the ...

The Cartier tiara is being sold for the first time since Nancy Astor acquired it in 1931. According to Bonhams, the tiara was first recorded in the Cartier archives in 1929 when the jeweler ...