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With her siblings, Henrietta and George, by Angelica Kauffman, c. 1774.The painting was painted just before Georgiana's marriage to the Duke of Devonshire. On her seventeenth birthday, 7 June 1774, Lady Georgiana Spencer was married to society's most eligible bachelor, William Cavendish, the 5th Duke of Devonshire, who was nine years her senior.
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 ...
Duke of Devonshire is a title in the Peerage of England held by members of the Cavendish family.This (now the senior) branch of the Cavendish family has been one of the wealthiest British aristocratic families since the 16th century and has been rivalled in political influence perhaps only by the Cecil marquesses of Salisbury and the Stanley earls of Derby.
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Last week, Princess Diana's brother, 59, marked what would have been John Spencer's 100th birthday by posting three paintings of the British nobleman in different stages of his life. The first ...
Georgiana Dorothy Howard, Countess of Carlisle (née Cavendish; 12 July 1783 – 8 August 1858) was a British noblewoman.She was born after nine years of childless marriage between William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and his wife, Lady Georgiana Spencer, the political hostess and socialite.
Quincy Jones, the legendary record producer and 28-time Grammy winner, has died aged 91.His publicist confirmed he passed away on November 3 at his home in the Bel Air area of Los Angeles ...
Lord George was born on 19 August 1810. He was the second son of Hon. William Cavendish and Louisa O'Callaghan. He was known as George Henry Cavendish until 1858, when his brother succeeded as Duke of Devonshire and he was given precedence as the son of a duke by Royal Warrant of Precedence.