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 lived in Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, and negotiated with the vicar for Orwell to be interred in All Saints ' Churchyard there, although he had no connection with the village.

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.

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.

The couple had two sons, David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty ( 1905 – 1972 ) born at the Capua Palace, Malta, and the Hon.

* Nerrière, Jean-Paul and Hon, David ( 2009 ), Globish The World Over, IGI, Paris.

Current trustees include the Rt Hon Dr David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere.

Her godparents were: the Prince of Wales ( her paternal uncle, for whom his brother the Prince George stood proxy ); Princess Ingrid of Sweden ( her paternal cousin, for whom another cousin Lady Patricia Ramsay stood proxy ); the Princess Victoria ( her paternal great-aunt ); the Lady Rose Leveson-Gower ( her maternal aunt ); and the Hon David Bowes-Lyon ( her maternal uncle ).

David E. Stucki, Hon Jim D. James, Hon Michael L. Howard

The Sheriff of Bleckley County is Harold O. Lancaster, the Clerk of Superior Court is Dianne C. Brown, the Tax Commissioner is J. David Brown, and the Probate Judge is Hon.

David, the last of that direct line, passed the chiefship to the Hon.

**** ( 48 ) The Rt Hon The Earl of Harewood ( David Lascelles ; b. 1950 )

On August 28, of the same year Dr. David S. Hibbard founded Silliman Institute now Silliman University with the help of Meliton Larena the first town mayor of Dumaguete & Hon Demetrio Larena.

Captain Alexander Arthur Alfonso David Maule Ramsay of Mar ( 21 December 1919 – 20 December 2000 ) was the only child of HRH Princess Patricia of Connaught, who renounced her royal title and style when she married then-Captain the Hon.

joined forces with Rt Hon David Davis ( British politician ) MP, Rt Hon John McFall MP and Dr Vince Cable MP, to form The Future of Banking Commission, which launched its recommendations in June 2010.

Current commissioners consist of the Rt Hon David Cameron and George Osborne ; with junior lords as Michael Fabricant MP, Angela Watkinson MP, Jeremy Wright MP, Brooks Newmark MP, and James Duddridge MP.

* The Rt Revd and Rt Hon David Hope, Lord Hope of Thornes-former Archbishop of York and former Principal

* Conservative Party-Rt Hon David Maclean MP official site

* The Rt Hon David Cameron MP-Prime Minister

Whilst his cousin, David Sainsbury, inherited his father Robert Sainsbury's entire 18 % shareholding, Lord Sainsbury had to split his father Alan Sainsbury's 18 % stake with his younger brothers The Hon.

* The Rt Hon David Cameron MP ( 2005 –)

In November 2010 Bob was appointed by the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon David Cameron MP, to head the United Kingdom delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ,.

David was also a nephew of The Hon.

David Davis, MLC, The Hon.

The report of the Royal Commissioner, Hon David Hunt, AO QC, found that the original inquiry was inadequate.

* The Rt Hon David Davis MP