A rumour spread during the war that the term was publicized by Viscountess Astor, a Member of the British Parliament, who supposedly used the expression in public after a disillusioned serviceman in Italy signed a letter to her as being from a "D-Day Dodger."
She was the youngest sister of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor and of Irene Langhorne, who was married to the artist Charles Dana Gibson.
Annabel Jones, his stepdaughter from his second marriage, married his nephew, William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor.
His eldest son, the second Viscount, was the husband of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, the first woman to sit in the House of Commons.
John Jacob Astor | Astor family | William Waldorf Astor | Mary Astor | John Jacob Astor IV | William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor | William Backhouse Astor, Sr. | Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor | Vincent Astor | Brooke Astor | Astor | Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon | Ástor Piazzolla | Astor Piazzolla | John Jacob Astor III | Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor | Astor Showcase | Astor Pictures | William Backhouse Astor, Jr. | William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor | Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor | Michael Astor | Katharine Russell, Viscountess Amberley | Astor Theatre | Astor Place Riot | Waldorf Astor | Viscountess Astor | Tom Astor | Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda | Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon (1904) by John Singer Sargent. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama |