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Show ASTOR DIES IN ENGLAND. Expatriated Multimillionaire Passes Away After Year's Illness. London. Yiscount William Waldorf Astor died of heart disease October 18, at Brighton, after a year's illness-He illness-He was 71 years old. The body will be conveyed to the residence of his son, Hon. Waldorf Astor, M. P., at 4 St. James square. It will be cremated and placed in the family's private chapel at Cliveden. Since he left America, in 1890, to take up his residence in England, declaring de-claring that "America is not a fit country for a gentleman to live in," William Waldorf Astor had been almost al-most continually in the public eye. The impulsive temperament which caused his self-expatriation kept him in hot water in his adopted country for many years. It was not until after the outbreak of the war that he managed man-aged to overcome the opposition to his ambition to achieve a peerage. H was made a baron by King George in 1916 and a viscount in 1917, in recognition recog-nition of his generous financial contributions contri-butions to war projects. |