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    William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, KG, PC (21 May 1790 – 18 January 1858), styled Marquess of Hartington until 1811, was an English...
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    William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, KG, PC, FRS (25 January 1640 – 18 August 1707) was an English Army officer, Whig politician and peer who sat...
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    Duke of Devonshire is a title in the Peerage of England held by members of the Cavendish family. This (now the senior) branch of the Cavendish family has...
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    William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, KG, PC (27 April 1808 – 21 December 1891), styled Lord Cavendish of Keighley between 1831 and 1834 and Earl...
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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...
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  • Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, KCVO, CBE, DL (also known as "Stoker"; born 27 April 1944), is an English peer. He is the only surviving son of Andrew...
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    Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire KG, GCMG, GCVO, TD, PC, JP, FRS (31 May 1868 – 6 May 1938), known as Victor Cavendish until 1908...
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    Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, KG, MC, PC, DL (2 January 1920 – 3 May 2004), styled Lord Andrew Cavendish until 1944 and Marquess of Hartington...
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    into the Cavendish family, she was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and the mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire. The Duchess...
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  • married Lord Andrew Cavendish, younger son of the 10th Duke of Devonshire, in 1941. When Cavendish's older brother, William, Marquess of Hartington, was killed...
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    William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, KB, FRS (c. 10 October 1617 – 23 November 1684) was an English nobleman and politician, known as a royalist...
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    the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the participation of William Cavendish (then Earl of Devonshire) in the Invitation to William, though the family appears...
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    Dorothy, daughter of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire and Charlotte Boyle, Baroness Clifford. He was the elder brother of Lord William Bentinck and...
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  • politician and British Army officer. He was the elder son of Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, and therefore the heir to the dukedom. He was killed...
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    Louisa Frederica Augusta Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, formerly Louisa Montagu, Duchess of Manchester (born Countess Luise Friederike Auguste von...
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    Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, DStJ, GCVO, JP (née Fitzmaurice; 27 August 1870 – 2 April 1960), was the wife of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire...
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    Rachel Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (née Russell; 1674–1725) was a British noblewoman and the wife of William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire. Rachel...
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    Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish (29 August 1905 – 23 March 1944) was the second son of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire and his wife, Lady Evelyn...
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    of William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, by his wife, Lady Blanche Howard (a daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle and a niece of the 6th Duke of...
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    fire in 1733 it was rebuilt by William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, in the Palladian style, to designs by William Kent. Completed circa 1740, it...
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    Alice Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, GCVO, CBE (née Gascoyne-Cecil; 29 July 1895 – 24 December 1988) was a British courtier who served as Mistress of the...
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    of the Irish National Invincibles organisation. Born at Compton Place, Eastbourne, Sussex, Cavendish was the second son of the 7th Duke of Devonshire...
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  • Thumbnail for William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
    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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    Augustus Henry Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington (31 March 1754 – 4 May 1834) Schweizer 2004. "Papers of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire (1720–1764)...
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    Duke of Portland, the Prime Minister of Great Britain. Dorothy Cavendish was born on 27 August 1750 to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, the...
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    Gardener at Kensington Palace. William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire, and William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, made no changes to the house or...
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    named after William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire. Though they were not the first known banana specimens in Europe, in around 1834 Cavendish received...
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    (1808–1891) (succeeded as Duke of Devonshire in 1858) See Duke of Devonshire for further succession. Cavendish family Earl of Cork Baron Clifford Burlington...
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  • Dorothy Cavendish, a daughter of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, another Prime Minister, by his marriage to Lady Charlotte Boyle, a daughter of Richard...
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    between William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and his wife, Lady Georgiana Spencer, the political hostess and socialite. As such, she was a member of one...
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