DeLancey Astor Kane the mother of Peter Augustus Jay), and Sybil Kent Kane. He was the grandson of Walter Langdon and Dorothea (née Astor) Langdon and the great-grandson of John Jacob Astor. He was a cousin of Lt. Col. John Jacob Astor IV. His paternal lineage descended from John O'Kane who emigrated to the country in 1752 from County Londonderry and Antrim, Ireland. During the American Revolutionary War, O'Kane (who dropped the "'O" once in America) was living at Sharyvogne, his estate in Dutchess County, which was confiscated after the War due to his Loyalist times. His eldest son, John Jr., stayed and
Astor College Astor College Astor College, previously known as Astor Secondary School, is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Dover, England. Astor Secondary School opened in 1948 and one of 2 new Secondary moderns founded in the immediate post-war years serving Dover, the other, Castlemount Secondary School, closed in 1991. The school trace its origins back to Christ Church National School and later Christchurch Church of England (C of E) Girls School. In 1929, Christchurch moved to Astor Avenue Elementary School, subsequently Astor Primary School, named after Lady Violet Astor, wife of Baron John Jacob Astor, 1st