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 ...

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 ...

American-born Nancy Astor was elected in 1919 to represent Plymouth ... Campaigners have accused Lady Astor of being anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic and a Nazi sympathiser but supporters say she ...

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.

While Nancy Astor was famously the first female MP to take her seat in parliament she was not the first woman elected ... House which is currently being lovingly restored could very much have ...

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 ...