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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 1834 and 1858 and Marquess of Hartington between 1858 and 1891, [1] was a British statesman. He has the distinction of having held leading positions in three political parties ...
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th duke of Devonshire (born July 23, 1833, Lower Holker, Lancashire, England—died March 24, 1908, Cannes, France) was a British statesman whose opposition to the Irish Home Rule policy of his own Liberal Party caused him to assume (1886) the leadership of the Liberal Unionist Party and to become increasingly ...
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The 8th Duke of Devonshire was a statesman who served in Parliament for more than fifty years. A significant figure in the Liberal Party, he played a leading role in the cabinets of Gladstone and later Liberal governments as the Marquess of Hartington.
The Cavendish (or de Cavendish) family ( / ˈkævəndɪʃ / KAV-ən-dish) is a British noble family, of Anglo-Norman origins (though with an Anglo-Saxon name, originally from a place-name in Suffolk). They rose to their highest prominence as Duke of Devonshire and Duke of Newcastle .
He became 8th duke of Devonshire (1891) and in 1893 moved the rejection of the second home rule bill in the lords. In 1895 he became lord lieutenant of Co. Waterford, and was lord president of the council (1895–1903) in the conservative-led government.
The statue of the Duke of Devonshire is a Grade II-listed outdoor bronze sculpture of Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, the leader of three British political parties between 1875 and 1903, and is located at the entrance to Horse Guards Avenue, Whitehall, London, England.
Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th duke of, marquis of Hartington (1833–1908). Heir to the Cavendish family's dukedom and a Palmerstonian Whig, Hartington was an MP at 24 and a cabinet minister at 34.
