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    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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    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 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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    (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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