John Jacob Astor, the younger son of the 1st Viscount Astor, was created a Baron on 21 January 1956. Educated at Eton, he became a national public schools tennis champion, and later won Army tennis titles. Wounded twice in WWI and named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, in WWII Astor was Lt.-Col. for the 5th Batallion City of London H.G. He served as Major in the late 1st Life Guards, as a Member of Parliament for Dover (1922-45), on Broadcasting Committees in 1923 and 1935, on the Post Office Advisory Council in 1933, and on the B.B.C. Advisory Council in 1937. Other civic positions he held include: Justice of the Peace for Kent, Lieutenant for the City of London, Honorary Secretary for the King's Roll National Council, President of the Kent Council and of the Fleet Street branch of the British Legion, Chairman of Imperial Press Conferences (1930, 1935, 1946 and 1950), and Aide-de Camp to the Viceroy of India. In 1916, Astor married Lady Violet Mary [d. 1965], widow of Lord Charles George Francis Mercer Nairne and youngest daughter of the 4th Earl of Minto. They had three sons--Gavin (who succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Astor of Hever), Hugh Waldorf, and John.