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Henry Cavendish was born on 10 October 1731 in Nice, where his family was living at the time. [2] His mother was Lady Anne de Grey, fourth daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, and his father was Lord Charles Cavendish, the third son of William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire. [2]
The Cavendish experiment, performed in 1797–1798 by English scientist Henry Cavendish, was the first experiment to measure the force of gravity between masses in the laboratory [1] and the first to yield accurate values for the gravitational constant.
The family, and that of Bess's hugely rich last husband, George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, were marked by fractious relationships, and Sir William's oldest son Sir Henry Cavendish was disinherited by Bess, the bulk of her large wealth going instead to Sir William's second son William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire, who received his ...
Temperance Cavendish (10 June 1549 – 1550), 2nd child, died in infancy. Henry Cavendish (17 December 1550 – 28 October 1616), 3rd child, a godson of Queen Elizabeth I. [7] He married Grace Talbot. Henry Cavendish is the forebear of the Barons Waterpark. The title of Baron Waterpark is extant. He hated his wife and had no legitimate children.
Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, KG, PC (24 June 1630 – 26 July 1691), styled Lord Henry Cavendish until 1659 and Viscount Mansfield from 1659 to 1676, was an English politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1660 until 1676, when he inherited the dukedom.
Henry Cavendish, Esquire (1576–1624). Sir Henry's eldest illegitimate son married Bridget Willoughby 14 October 1610. She was the daughter of Sir Percival and Lady Bridget Willoughby of Wollaton Hall, Nottingham. The Willoughby family's many trade interests overlapped with the Cavendish family.
Lord Henry Cavendish (1673 – 10 May 1700) was an English nobleman and politician, the second surviving son of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire. [1]Cavendish was educated abroad, traveling through Austria, Germany, and the Low Countries, and attending the University of Padua in 1691.
Cavendish married firstly Anne Pyne, the daughter of Henry Pyne and Anne Edgecumbe, on 9 January 1730. Together they had six children. He married secondly Catherine Prittie, daughter of Henry Prittie and Elizabeth Harrison, on 4 October 1748, and they had one son. He was succeeded in his title by his eldest son, Sir Henry Cavendish, 2nd Baronet.