According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

David Astor was looking for a provocative contributor for The Observer and invited Orwell to write for him — the first article appearing in March 1942.

By February 1945 David Astor had invited Orwell to become a war correspondent for the Observer.

David Astor was instrumental in arranging a place for Orwell on Jura.

Orwell's wedding took place in the hospital room on 13 October 1949, with David Astor as best man.

David Astor described him as looking like a prep school master, while according to the Special Branch dossier, Orwell's tendency to dress " in Bohemian fashion " revealed that the author was " a Communist ".

This support came from the British press in the form of Viscount Astor, Lord Beaverbrook and former WW1 Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who were trenchant critics of the autocratic style of Winston Churchill and favoured replacing Winston with Menzies.

* March 5 – David Astor, British newspaper publisher ( d. 2001 )

In August 1811, three months after Fort Astor was established, David Thompson and his team of British North West Company explorers came floating down the Columbia to Fort Astoria.

# Francis David Langhorne Astor ( 1912 – 2001 )

Oak Hall had notable guests, such as David Niven, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Lady Nancy Astor, and Mrs. George C. Marshall.

* David Astor ( 1948 – 1975 )

* David Astor and The Observer by Richard Cockett.

Notable descendants include Presidents of the United States George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of New York Anna Morton, actors Montgomery Clift and Michael Douglas, actress Jane Wyatt, poet Robert Lowell, cinematographer Floyd Crosby, his son David Crosby, author Wolcott Gibbs, and almost the entire Astor family.

* 7 – David Astor, 89, British newspaper proprietor.

* David Astor ( 1912 – 2001 ), British newspaper publisher

The group sued Observer editor David Astor over the report, in a case marked by discussion of an armed police raid of the building in which bullets were found.

Together with David Astor and Richard Rees, Orwell's literary executor, she established the George Orwell Archive at University College London, which opened in 1960.

David Astor, the Hon.

In 1980, just before the book was published, a friend of Crick's, David Astor, agreed to match the grant.

###### William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor ( born 1951 ) ( from 2nd marriage ), step-father to Samantha Cameron, the wife of Prime Minister David Cameron MP and-Conservative Party MP for Witney

Francis David Langhorne Astor ( 1912 – 2001 )

When his friend David Lloyd George became prime minister and formed a new coalition government, Astor became his parliamentary private secretary.

In 1768, he settled in Edinburgh ; he lived from 1771 until his death in 1776 at the south-west corner of St. Andrew's Square, in Edinburgh's New Town, at what is now 21 Saint David Street.

The Eisenhowers then lived in Texas from 1889 until 1892, and later returned to Kansas, with $ 24 to their name at the time ; David worked as a mechanic with a railroad and then with a creamery.

David Beatty spent much of his life ( when not at sea ) in Leicestershire, and lived at Brooksby Hall and Dingley Hall.

Whale lived in Hollywood for the rest of his life, most of that time with his longtime companion, producer David Lewis.

He and David Lewis lived together as a couple from around 1930 to 1952.

In Jerusalem, the royal family lived firstly on the Temple Mount, before the foundation of the Knights Templar, and later in the palace complex surrounding the Tower of David ; there was another palace complex in Acre.

* David Jason, English actor, lived in Le Mans between 1965 – 1968 and 1999 – 2001.

In contrast to the figures discussed in this section thus far, David Hume lived a relatively quiet life that had settled down to a relatively stable social and political structure.

It is claimed that David lived for over 100 years, and he died on a Tuesday 1 March ( now St David's Day ).

In a vision, David's wish was granted and told that from then on, people who lived in the land of Dewi Sant ( Saint David ) " would be forewarned by the dim light of mysterious tapers when and where the death might be expected.

David Jason appeared in the BBC comedy series Hugh and I, which starred Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott as two friends who lived together in south London.

David Livingstone also lived in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire from 1862 for a short time.

Walter David Michael Jones, later known solely as David, was born on 1 November 1895 in Arabin Road, Brockley, Kent, now a suburb of South East London, and later lived in nearby Howson Road.

* Edward and Canterbury Cathedral are mentioned in Chapter 52 of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: " Yet the bells, when they sounded, told me sorrowfully of change in everything ; told me of their own age, and my pretty Dora's youth ; and of the many, never old, who had lived and loved and died, while the reverberations of the bells had hummed through the rusty armour of the Black Prince hanging up within, and, motes upon the deep of Time, had lost themselves in air, as circles do in water.

Further, these three Lives are independent of each other, their authors drawing from records ( since lost ) or traditions at the abbeys the saints lived in — St Davids for David, Llancarfan for Cadoc, and Rhuys in Brittany for Gildas.

In 1892, she lived with her uncle David Bachrach.

Modern settlement on the ridge began in the City of David in 1873-1874, when the Meyuchas family, a Jewish rabbinical and merchant family that had lived in Jerusalem since their expulsion from Spain, moved a short distance outside the city walls to a house on the ridge.

In Jeremiah's ministry, he declared that God had likened the filling of wineskins to filling with drunkenness all who lived in the land of Israel, including the kings who sat on David ’ s throne, the priests, the prophets and all those in Jerusalem.

Crockett lived in the county for several years and ran a water-powered grist mill, powder mill and distillery on Shoal Creek, where David Crockett State Park is now located.

In 1988, Mullins moved to Wichita, Kansas where, in 1991, he enrolled as a student at Friends University and lived with his best friend, David Strasser ( a. k. a. Beaker ).

Among those who can lay claim to fame, and who have either been born or lived in Beckenham or have had some important contribution to make to the town, there are show business people such as Bob Monkhouse ( 1928 – 2003 ); Julie Andrews ( 1935-); David Bowie ( 1947-), who lived at 42 Southend Road, Beckenham from 1969 – 1973 ; Peter Frampton ( 1950-); Wende Snijders ( 1978-), the Dutch singer ; and the actors Maurice Denham ( 1909 – 2002 ), and Simon Ward ( 1941 – 2012 ).

* David Baddiel, English comedian, novelist and television presenter, has lived in Hatch End.