John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever educated at Eton College and at New College, Oxford. Upon his father's death in 1919, John Jacob V inherited Hever Castle near Edenbridge, Kent, where he lived the life of an English country gentleman. John Jacob Astor V represented Great Britain in rackets at the 1908 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal in the men's doubles competition together with Vane Pennell, and winning bronze in the men's singles event. Astor had been the British Public Schools rackets champion in 1904–05, and in the same year as his Olympic competition he played singles and doubles in the British Army rackets championships.
National Register of Historic Places listings in southern New Castle County, Delaware National Register of Historic Places listings in southern New Castle County, Delaware This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in southern New Castle County, Delaware. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in New Castle County, Delaware south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. There are 389 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Eighty-six