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The explorer Thomas Cavendish "the Navigator" (1555–1592) was descended from Roger Cavendish, Sir John Cavendish's brother. The 3rd to 9th Dukes of Portland were descended from the Cavendish family through the female line, and took the surname Cavendish-Bentinck or a variant thereof.
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 to the aristocratic families of the Dukedoms of Devonshire , Newcastle and Portland .
Lord John Cavendish PC (22 October 1732 – 18 December 1796) was a British nobleman and politician. ... from family temperament and not from design, he was an entire ...
The Cavendish family descends from Sir John Cavendish, who took his name from the village of Cavendish, Suffolk, where he held an estate in the 14th century. [6] He served as Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1372 to 1381, and was killed in the Peasants' Revolt in 1381.
Pages in category "Cavendish family" The following 112 pages are in this category, out of 112 total. ... John Cavendish, 5th Baron Chesham; Lord John Cavendish; K.
Hobbes died at another Cavendish family estate, Hardwick Hall, in December 1679. After his death, many of Hobbes' manuscripts were found at Chatsworth House. [11] William Cavendish, 4th Earl of Devonshire, who became the 1st Duke in 1694 for helping to put William of Orange on the English throne, was an advanced Whig.
First, there is the very real Cavendish family, headed by the Duke of Devonshire (in fact, John F. Kennedy's sister, Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, married William "Billy" Cavendish, the Marquess of ...
William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland (17 September 1800 – 6 December 1879), styled Lord John Bentinck before 1824 and Marquess of Titchfield between 1824 and 1854, was a British Army officer and peer, most remembered for his eccentric behaviour.