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2 unusual facts about William Backhouse Astor, Jr.


Louis Keller

which was far more inclusive than Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred"— the number, reputedly, that could be accommodated in Mrs William Astor's ballroom.

Mrs. William B. Astor House

It was originally constructed for the wife of real estate heir William Backhouse Astor, Jr., Caroline Astor.


Adolf Schreyer

The Metropolitan Museum, New York owns three of Schreyer's oriental paintings: Abandoned, Arabs on the March and Arabs making a detour; and many of his best pictures are in the Rockefeller family, Vanderbilt family, John Jacob Astor, William Backhouse Astor, Sr., August Belmont, and William Walters collections.

Eliot Zborowski

In 1880 he married a wealthy American heiress, born Margaret Laura Astor Carey (1853–1911), a granddaughter of William Backhouse Astor, Sr. of the prominent Astor family.

John Rollin Tilton

The American statesman Hamilton Fish bought his Vallata Chamounix, and the American businessman W. B. Astor, his Lago di Thun; Louise, lady Ashburton, Dendur in Egypt and Paestum; the Boston mayor Martin Brimmer, his Lago di Como and Venice, and Count Palfy, his Vedute of Orvieto.

William Backhouse Astor

William Backhouse Astor, Sr. (1792–1875), businessman and member of the Astor family

William Backhouse Astor, Jr.

4th 1946 (divorced 1952) David Pleydell-Bouverie, of the Earls of Radnor (born 1911)

Liking the area, in 1874, he purchased a land tract of around 80,000 acres (320 km²) along the St. Johns River north of Orlando, Florida in an area now called Lake County, Florida.

William Backhouse Astor, Sr.

He chose as his tutor a student, afterward known as the Chevalier Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen, with whom he also traveled.

Her second husband died in a racing car accident, as did their son, Count Louis Zborowski, who was killed at the Italian Grand Prix in 1924.


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