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David Astor. Francis David Langhorne Astor, CH (5 March 1912 – 7 December 2001) was an English newspaper publisher, editor of The Observer at the height of its circulation and influence, and member of the Astor family, "the landlords of New York".
23 ott 2020 · New catalogue: Archive of David Astor. The catalogue of newspaper editor and philanthropist David Astor is now complete and available online via Bodleian Archives and Manuscripts.
3 giu 2019 · Yet they fail to acknowledge the crucial role played by his friend, David Astor, in Orwell’s final years and in the making of Nineteen Eighty-Four. It was Cyril Connolly who introduced Orwell to fellow old-Etonian, millionaire, and editor David Astor in 1941 – and after Orwell’s wife Eileen died suddenly in 1945, he arguably ...
Francis David Langhorne Astor, known as David, was born 5 March 1912 at his family’s London home in St James Square, the third child of Waldorf, 2nd Viscount Astor and his wife Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor.
13 dic 2001 · David Astor retired as editor in 1975 but continued to support many of the causes he had fostered in the paper, among them Amnesty International, asylum-seekers, friendship with Germany,...
26 feb 2016 · A fine biography of the idealistic editor who presided over the Observer for nearly three decades captures a journalistic golden age. David Astor (holding glasses) with colleagues Michael...
12 dic 2001 · David Astor, who as editor for 27 years of Britain's oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer, built it up into a respected and successful advocate for liberal causes but later...
