Lady Astor (1879-1964), American-born British politician, 1926. Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Plymouth in 1919, and as such became the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 5: Christianity Today and Tomorrow, edited by RG Parsons and AS Peake, published by the Waverley Book Club (London, 1926). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
