Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor; David Astor; Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor; Nancy Phyllis Louise Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby (née Astor), Countess of Ancaster NPG x76182

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Rita Martin

American-born politician; Astor came to England in 1904 and married her second husband Waldorf Astor, whom she succeeded as Conservative MP for the Sutton division of Plymouth in 1919. A champion of women's rights, she was the first woman MP to sit in the House of Commons (1919-45). Despite playing a large part in drawing the Conservative Party's attention towards the need to attract the female electorate, Astor was repeatedly overlooked for a position in Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's cabinet, and an attempt... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.