Editing David Astor (section)

==Personal life==
In 1945, he married for the first time to Melanie Hauser, with whom he had one child:<ref name="NYTObit2001"/>
* Frances Christine Langhorne Astor (b. 1947)

After his divorce from Melanie in 1951, he married Bridget Aphra Wreford (1928-2019) in 1952.<ref name="NYTObit2001"/> David and Bridget had five children:<ref name="Astor">{{cite news|title=David Astor|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1364660/David-Astor.html|accessdate=9 February 2017|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|language=en}}</ref>
* Alice Margaret Frances Astor (b. 1953)
* Richard David Langhorne Astor (b. 1955)
* Lucy Aphra Nancy Astor (b. 1958)
* Nancy Bridget Elizabeth Astor (b. 1960)
* Thomas Robert Langhorne Astor (b. 1962)

[[File:Grave of David Astor, All Saints, Sutton Courtenay - geograph.org.uk - 362288.jpg|thumb|upright|David Astor's headstone in [[All Saints' Church, Sutton Courtenay|All Saints' parish churchyard, Sutton Courtenay]]]]
David Astor died in December 2001 at the age of 89,<ref name="NYTObit2001">{{cite news|last1=Lewis|first1=Paul|title=David Astor, 89, Liberal Voice As Editor of Britain's Observer|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/12/world/david-astor-89-liberal-voice-as-editor-of-britain-s-observer.html|accessdate=9 February 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=12 December 2001}}</ref> and is buried in [[All Saints' Church, Sutton Courtenay|All Saints' parish churchyard, Sutton Courtenay]], Oxfordshire, in a grave with a simple headstone bearing only his name and years of birth and death. In an adjacent grave is his friend Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name [[George Orwell]].<ref>[http://www.all-saints-church.org.uk/history.php History of All Saints Church] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627230312/http://all-saints-church.org.uk/history.php |date=27 June 2014}}, retrieved 23 August 2014</ref> Astor bought both burial plots when he learned that Orwell had asked to be buried in an English country churchyard.