Sir John Cavendish (c. 1346 – 15 June 1381) was an English judge and politician from Cavendish, Suffolk, England. He and the village gave the name Cavendish...
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home of the Cavendish family since 1549. Sir John Cavendish (c. 1346–1381) Sir John Cavendish William Cavendish (died 1433) Thomas Cavendish (died 1477)...
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Lord John Cavendish PC (22 October 1732 – 18 December 1796) was a British nobleman and politician. Cavendish was the youngest son of William Cavendish, 3rd...
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William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (17 September 1800 – 6 December 1879), styled Lord John Bentinck before 1824 and Marquess...
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of Sir John Cavendish from whom the Dukes of Devonshire and the Dukes of Newcastle inherited the family name of Cavendish. Cavendish became one of...
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William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire KG, PC (1672 – 4 June 1729) was a British nobleman and politician. He was the eldest son of William Cavendish, 1st...
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William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington (10 December 1917 – 9 September 1944) was a British politician and British Army officer. He was...
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John Cavendish (1346–1381) was a British nobleman and politician. John Cavendish may also refer to: John Cavendish, 5th Baron Chesham (1916–1989), British...
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Duke of Devonshire (redirect from Baron Cavendish)
Peerage of England held by members of the Cavendish family. This (now the senior) branch of the Cavendish family has been one of the wealthiest British...
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Major-General John Scott, in 1795 and assumed by Royal licence the same year the additional surname of Scott in the manner of Cavendish-Bentinck. His...
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great-grandson of Sir John Cavendish from whom the Dukes of Devonshire and the Dukes of Newcastle inherited the family name of Cavendish. George was an English...
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William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (14 April 1738 – 30 October 1809) was a British Whig and then a Tory politician during...
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Cavendish bananas are the fruits of one of a number of banana cultivars belonging to the Cavendish subgroup of the AAA banana cultivar group (triploid...
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William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, KG, PC (26 September 1698 – 5 December 1755) was a British nobleman and Whig politician who sat in the House...
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passed to Francis John Hyde Wollaston and then to Cavendish, who rebuilt the apparatus but kept close to Michell's original plan. Cavendish then carried out...
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Henry Cavendish FRS (/ˈkævəndɪʃ/ KAV-ən-dish; 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English-French experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist...
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William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (redirect from William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland)
William Henry Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, PC (24 June 1768 – 27 March 1854), styled Marquess of Titchfield until 1809, was a British...
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William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, who married Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy (a member of the Kennedy family and younger sister of U.S. President John F....
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it became settled as Cavendish. They also say Cafan is the genitive suffix meaning 'of'.: 31 It was home to Sir John Cavendish, the ancestor of the Dukes...
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The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences. The laboratory was...
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Fox–North coalition rose to power in a government nominally headed by William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland. Pitt, who had been stripped of his post...
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Baron Chesham (redirect from John Compton Cavendish, 4th Baron Chesham)
(1850–1907) John Compton Cavendish, 4th Baron Chesham (1894–1952) John Charles Compton Cavendish, 5th Baron Chesham (1916–1989) Nicholas Charles Cavendish, 6th...
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The family is related to the British royal family through the maternal Cavendish-Bentinck line of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The name Bentinck is...
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Edward Cavendish MP (28 January 1838 – 18 May 1891) was a 19th-century British politician, soldier, and nobleman. Born in Marylebone, Cavendish was the...
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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (née Lucas; 1623 – 16 December 1673) was a prolific English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer...
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Robin Francis Cavendish, MBE (12 March 1930 – 8 August 1994), was a British advocate for people with disability, medical aid developer, and one of the...
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magistrate Cavendish Morton Cavendish Morton Robert Cavendish Spencer John Cavendish Brown Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby Claud Vere Cavendish Hobart Henrietta...
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Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, KG, GCVO, PC, PC (Ire), FRS (23 July 1833 – 24 March 1908), styled Lord Cavendish of Keighley between...
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Century, (Routledge 1998), p. 166 G. Cavendish, The Life of Wolsey (1557); Weir, p. 298 De Vera Obedientia; John Scarisbrick, Henry VIII; Weir, Henry...
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Cavendish Avenue is a street in St John's Wood, London, England. Cavendish Avenue runs north to south from Circus Road to Wellington Place, and is parallel...
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