William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor two daughters and seven grandchildren: Astor died in Nassau, Bahamas, at age 58 from a heart attack and was buried in the Octagon Temple at Cliveden. His son succeeded him in the viscountcy. William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor William Waldorf Astor II, 3rd Viscount Astor (13 August 1907 – 7 March 1966) was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was also a member of the Astor family. William was the eldest son of Waldorf Astor and Nancy Witcher Langhorne (by marriage, Viscountess Astor). He was educated at Eton and at New College, Oxford. In 1932, Astor was appointed
William Waldorf Astor Hotel in 1897, and the complex became the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. In 1891 he fell into a family feud with socialite Caroline Webster "Lina" Schermerhorn (1830–1908), wife of Willy's uncle businessman William Backhouse Astor, Jr. (1829–1892) and mother of rival cousin Jack, over who should be the "official Mrs. Astor". After Lina won the argument, Willy moved with his wife and children to England. He rented Lansdowne House in London until 1893. That year he purchased a country estate at Cliveden-on-Thames in Taplow, Buckinghamshire from the Duke of Westminster. To disappear from public view, in the summer of 1892, Astor faked