Hugh Cavendish, Baron Cavendish of Furness

The Right Honourable The Lord Cavendish of Furness FRSA DL
Official portrait, 2018
Lord-in-waiting Government Whip
In office 14 September 1990 – 22 April 1993
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher John Major
Preceded by	The Baroness Blatch
Succeeded by	The Viscount Astor
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 6 June 1990 – 1 January 2021
Personal details
Born	Richard Hugh Cavendish (1941-11-02) 2 November 1941 (age 83)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Grania Caulfeild
Relations	Cavendish family
Children	1 son, 2 daughters
Residence(s)	Holker Hall, Cumbria
Alma mater	Eton College

Richard Hugh Cavendish, Baron Cavendish of Furness FRSA DL (born 2 November 1941), is a British Conservative politician and landowner.

Lord Cavendish owns Holker Hall and its 17,000 acre estate overlooking Morecambe Bay in Cumbria. The property became part of this branch of the Cavendish family's inheritance via his grandfather, Lord Richard Cavendish CB.

Richard Hugh Cavendish was born as the second child and first son of Richard Edward Osborne Cavendish (1917–1972) and his wife, Pamela Thomas (b. 1918), daughter of Hugh Lloyd Thomas (1888–1938) and Hon. Gwendoline Ada Bellew (1891–1976), a great-granddaughter of Patrick Bellew, 1st Baron Bellew.^{[citation needed]}

Educated at Eton College, he was created a life peer as Baron Cavendish of Furness, of Cartmel in the County of Cumbria,^[1] on the advice of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on 17 May 1990 and served as a lord-in-waiting (1990–92).^[2] He and his son, Hon. Freddy Cavendish, are in remainder to the dukedom of Devonshire.

Cavendish is the chairman of the Holker Estate Group^[3] and has chaired the Morecambe and Lonsdale Conservative Association (1975–78) and the board of governors of St Anne's School, Windermere (1983–89). He is a director of Nirex Ltd (since 1993) and served as High Sheriff of Cumbria (1978–79) and a member of the Cumbria County Council (1985–1990). He became president of the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain in 2008. He is chairman of the Burlington Stone Company.^[4]

Cavendish is the president of South Cumbria Rivers Trust.^[5]

In 1970 Cavendish married Grania Mary Caulfeild (b. 1947), granddaughter of Sir William Lindsay Murphy, who served as British Governor of the Bahamas.^{[citation needed]} They have one son, the Hon. Frederick Cavendish and two daughters, the Hon. Lucy Cavendish and the Hon. Emily Cavendish.^[6] They have four grandchildren.^{[citation needed]}

Coat of arms of Hugh Cavendish, Baron Cavendish of Furness

Crest A serpent nowed Proper Escutcheon Sable, three bucks' heads cabossed argent Motto Cavendo tutus[7]

• Cavendish family

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord Cavendish of Furness
• Portraits of Hugh Cavendish, Baron Cavendish of Furness at the National Portrait Gallery, London
• www.william1.co.uk
• Burke's Peerage & Baronetage
• Lancashire Life