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Colonel Chiswell Dabney Langhorne (November 4, 1843 – February 14, 1919) was an American railroad industrialist. He was the father of Nancy Witcher Langhorne and the maternal grandfather of both Joyce Grenfell and Michael Langhorne Astor.
She was the eighth of eleven children born to railroad businessman Chiswell Dabney Langhorne and Nancy Witcher Keene. [5] . Following the abolition of slavery, Chiswell struggled to make his operations profitable, and with the destruction of the war, the family lived in near-poverty for several years before Nancy was born.
The Langhorne sisters of Virginia were a phenomenon in America, in the South and then in the North, long before the third of Chillie Langhorne's five daughters crossed the Atlantic and became, as Nancy Astor, in 1919, the first woman to take her seat in the British Parliament. For a decade or two after that, she was probably the most famous ...
21 mag 2015 · In Screenwriter Chiswell Langhorne's Library, Art and Books Vie for Shelf Space | Art for Sale | Artspace. How I Collect. In Screenwriter Chiswell Langhorne's Library, Art and Books Vie for Shelf Space. By Artspace Editors. May 21, 2015. A view of the library in collector Chiswell Langhorne's New York apartment. (Photographs by Paul Lewis.)
Colonel Chiswell Dabney Langhorne (November 4, 1843 – February 14, 1919) was an United States railroad industrialist. He was the father of Nancy Witcher Langhorne and the maternal grandfather of both Joyce Grenfell and Michael Langhorne Astor.
10 mar 2015 · Churchill, Lady Astor and the Sisters Langhorne | RealClearPolitics. By Carl M. Cannon - RCP Staff. March 10, 2015. Ninety-two years ago today Americans were reading in their morning papers about...
Colonel Chiswell Dabney Langhorne (November 4, 1843 – February 14, 1919) was an American railroad industrialist. He was the father of Nancy Witcher Langhorne and the maternal grandfather of both Joyce Grenfell and Michael Langhorne Astor.
