ASTOR, WALDORF ASTOR, 2ND VISCOUNT (1879 ), British politician, born in New York May 19, 1879, and educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. He married in 1906, the daughter of Chiswell Dabney Langhorne (see ASTOR, NANCY WITCHER). He represented Plymouth as a Unionist 1910-18, and the Sutton division of Plymouth 1918-19, when he vacated his seat on succeeding to his father's peerage. He was chairman of the Government committee on tuberculosis and of the State medical research committee. During the World War, he was inspector of quartermaster-general services, and in 1918 became private secretary to the prime minister, Lloyd George. He acted as Parliamentary secretary to the ministry of food, 1918-19, and to the local government board in 1919, retaining the same position on the formation of the ministry of health up to 1921. Since 1915 he has been the proprietor of The Observer and active on behalf of many causes of social progress, especially temperance reform. At the same time he was one of the leading British owners and breeders of race horses.