Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever the rank of captain. Business positions included the chairmanship of the Times Publishing Company and life presidency of Times Newspapers Ltd. He was appointed High Sheriff of Sussex in 1955. He inherited the barony and Hever Castle in Kent on the death of his father in 1971. In 1955, he founded the Astor of Hever Trust, a charity aimed to collect donations for arts, medicine, religion, education, conservation, youth, and sport. Astor married Lady Irene Haig (1919–2001), youngest daughter of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861–1928), and Dorothy Maud Vivian (1879–1939), on 4 October 1945. They had five
Guy Hever again to no avail. In 2016 the IDF made another search, this time on land, but found no trace of Hever. The army also followed up on a lead from a psychic medium, and found human remains and clothes of a different individual in the Golan. In 2017, the IDF raided a home for the mentally ill in the southern city of Rahat following a report than Hever was being kept there, but subsequently determined he was not there. The Hever case has received significantly more attention that other missing person cases, including missing soldiers, and his name is often