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Lady Mary Butler. 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 Duke of Devonshire and Lady Mary Butler. A prominent Whig, he was sworn of the Privy Council in 1707, and served as Lord President of the Council from 1716 to 1718 and ...
El Laboratorio Cavendish de la Universidad de Cambridge fue donado por uno de los parientes posteriores de Cavendish, William Cavendish, séptimo duque de Devonshire (canciller de la Universidad de 1861 a 1891). Personalidad. En el ámbito personal era muy retraído, solitario, misántropo, misógino y excéntrico.
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, KG, PC (8 May 1720 – 2 October 1764), styled Lord Cavendish before 1729, and Marquess of Hartington between 1729 and 1755, was a British Whig statesman and nobleman who was briefly nominal Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Frances Cavendish (c. 1593–1613), married William Maynard, 1st Baron Maynard. Gilbert, who has been credited with the authorship of Horae Subsecivae (see Grey Brydges, 5th Baron Chandos ), died young. James, died in infancy. Cavendish's second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Boughton of Couston, Warwickshire, widow of Sir Richard ...
William Cavendish was the second child and eldest son in a family of four boys and three girls. His father, the third Duke of Devonshire, was descended from a family which derived from the small town village of Cavendish Overhall in Suffolk — one of his ancestors, Sir John Cavendish, was Lord Chief Justice under Edward III, and was beheaded by a mob during the Peasants’ Revolt, in 1381.
William Cavendish (c. 1505 - † 25 de octubre de 1557) fue un cortesano inglés, originalmente un simple ujier del arzobispo Thomas Wolsey, que se ganó el favor de Enrique VIII de Inglaterra y sus sucesores, que encumbraron su honor.
Sir William Cavendish MP (c. 1505 - 25 de octubre de 1557) fue un político, caballero y cortesano inglés. Cavendish ocupó un cargo público y acumuló una fortuna considerable, y se convirtió en uno de los 'visitantes de los monasterios' de Thomas Cromwell. durante la disolución de los monasterios. Fue diputado por Thirsk en 1547.
