which was far more inclusive than Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred"— the number, reputedly, that could be accommodated in Mrs William Astor's ballroom.
It was originally constructed for the wife of real estate heir William Backhouse Astor, Jr., Caroline Astor.
William Shakespeare | William Laud | William Blake | William | William III of England | William Morris | William McKinley | William Howard Taft | William Ewart Gladstone | William the Conqueror | William S. Burroughs | William Shatner | William Faulkner | William Randolph Hearst | William Wordsworth | William Tecumseh Sherman | William Hogarth | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge | William Penn | William Jennings Bryan | William Gibson | William Wilberforce | William James | William Makepeace Thackeray | Fort William | William Hanna | William Hague | John Jacob Astor | William III | William Hurt |
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.
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.
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, Sr. (1792–1875), businessman and member of the Astor family
4th 1946 (divorced 1952) David Pleydell-Bouverie, of the Earls of Radnor (born 1911)
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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.
He chose as his tutor a student, afterward known as the Chevalier Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen, with whom he also traveled.
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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.