Nancy, Viscountess Astor
NANCY, VISCOUNTESS ASTOR
BORN VIRGINIA USA 1879, DIED ENGLAND 1964
IN THIS BUILDING ON 28 NOVEMBER, 1919, THE ELECTION TO PARLIAMENT OF LADY NANCY ASTOR
WAS ANOUNCED. SHE WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO SIT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND REPRESENTED
THE PLYMOUTH CONSITUENCY OF SUTTON UNTIL 1946. ELECTED FREEMAN OF THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH
IN 1969, FORMIDABLE IN POLITICS AND AN INDOMITABLE CHAMPION OF JUST CAUSES, LADY ASTOR'S
CHARM AND WIT WERE MATCHED BY HER UNFLINCHING COURAGE IN ADVERSITY.
IN POLITICS AND PUBLIC LIFE THEY WORKED TIRELESSLY
FOR THE COMMON GOD OF THE PEOPLE OF PLYMOUTH
WALDORF, SECOND VISCOUNT ASTOR
BORN NEW YORK USA 1879, DIED ENGLAND 1952
WALDORF ASTOR SERVED AS MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR PLYMOUTH 1910-1919. AS LORD MAYOR OF
PLYMOUTH 1939-1944, LORD ASTOR PRESIDED IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS NEAR THIS BULDING WHICH
WERE DESTROYED BY ENEMY ACTION IN 1941. IN THE DARKEST DAYS OF THE WAR, HE PREPARED FOR
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HIS STRICKEN CITY, AND IN THE PLAN FOR PLYMOUTH PUBLISHED 1943
WAS EXPRESSED THE VISION AND HOPE THAT LED TO THE BUILDING OF THE CITY WE SEE TODAY.
Submitted by Deputy Lord Mayor of Plymouth, @yevaDmaS