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Nancy Astor, 1879 - 1964, first woman to sit in Parliament, lived here.
SW1, St James's Square, 4
The modern information board at the entrance to the gardens gives the following: "No. 4 (built 1728): Home of the Astor family for thirty years. Still retained as a private residence preserving the only remaining mews annexe at the rear."
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Nancy Astor
Born as Nancy Witcher Langhorne in Danville, Virginia, USA. Married Waldorf A...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Nancy Astor
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that ma...
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809 - 1892, poet, lived here in 1880 and 1881. English Heritage
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Charles Morgan, 1894 - 1958, novelist and critic, lived and died here. English Heritage
We had spotted this unusual plaque in 2015 but put it on the long finger. Then Timothy Evers noticed it in 2021 and prompted us to publis...
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