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  CAVENDISH, THOMAS - LoveToKnow Article on CAVENDISH, THOMAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
(E. CAVENDISH, HENRY (17311810), English chemist and physicist, elder son of Lord Charles Cavendish, brother of the 3rd duke of Devonshire, and Lady Anne Grey, daughter of the duke of Kent, was born at Nice in October 1731.
CAVENDISH, T.CAVENDISH, SIR W. Cavendish burnt about two parts of hydrogen with five of common air, and noticed that almost all the hydrogen and about one-fifth of the common air lost their elasticity and were condensed into a dew which lined the inside of the vessel employed.
CAVENDISH [CANDisnl, THOMAS (i5SS?-i592), the third circumnavigator of the globe, was born at Trimley St Martin, Suffolk.
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 George Cavendish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cavendish was the great-grandson of Sir John Cavendish from whom the Dukes of Devonshire and the Dukes of Newcastle inherited the family name of Cavendish.
George was an English courtier and author and the brother of William Cavendish, the third husband of Bess of Hardwick.
Until that time it was believed that the book was the composition of George Cavendish's younger brother William, the founder of Chatsworth House, who also was attached to Wolsey.
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 Cavendish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Henry Cavendish was English physicist and chemist who conducted experiments in diverse fields, discovering such phenomena as the composition of air, the nature and properties of hydrogen, the specific heat of certain substances, the composition of water, and various properties of electricity.
Cavendish's experiments on air, described in 1784-85, led to the discovery that water is not an element but a compound and to the discovery of nitric acid.
Cavendish discovered for himself that the force between a pair of electrical charges is inverse to the square of the distance between them, a basic law of electrostatics subsequently established by a French physicist, C.A. Coulomb, and known by his name.
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 AllRefer.com - George Cavendish (English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biography) - Encyclopedia
George Cavendish, English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biographies
George Cavendish 1500–1561?, English gentleman, usher to Cardinal Wolsey.
The book was long attributed to Cavendish's brother William, but in 1814 Joseph Hunter clearly established its authorship.
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 Duke of Devonshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Marquessate of Hartington, the Earldom of Devonshire and the Barony of Cavendish of Hardwick are in the peerage of England, while the Earldom of Burlington and the Barony of Cavendish of Keighley are in the United Kingdom peerage.
The family name derives from the village of Cavendish, Suffolk, England and from Sir John Cavendish, who held the estate there in the 14th century and who died in the Peasants' Revolt.
His two great-grandsons were William Cavendish (pictured at right), the second husband of Bess of Hardwick, and George Cavendish, William's older brother and Thomas Cardinal Wolsey's biographer.
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 George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford
George Boleyn was Anne Boleyn's brother, and is best known for being accused of incest with her.
George's date of birth has been generally agreed upon (if Ives and Warnicke can agree, it must be!), but it was quite difficult to determine.
George Boleyn was beheaded with an axe on Tower Hill, on the morning of Wednesday, May 17.
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 §11. George Cavendish. XV. Chroniclers and Antiquaries. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
First printed in 1641, it was then so defaced by interpolations and excisions as to be scarce recognisable, and it was not until 1657 that a perfect text was given to the world.
However, all doubt was long since removed, and to George Cavendish, a simple gentleman of the cardinal’s household, belongs the glory of having given to English literature the first specimen of artistic biography.
And Cavendish, speaking with the voice of the tragic chorus, exhorts his readers to behold “the wondrous mutability of vain honours, the brittle assurance of abundance, the uncertainty of dignities, the flattery of feigned friends, and the fickle trust to worldly princes.”
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Cavendish sent a launch over to pick up Pedro Bravo de Paredes who was designated by Alzola to negotiate with the Englishmen regarding surrender terms.
Cavendish also took with him two Japanese brothers (Cristobal, 20 and and Cosme, 17) and three Filipino boys (Alfonso, 15, Antonio de Dasi, 13, and one unnamed, 9).
Cavendish made one of the fastest Pacific crossings ever, reaching the Philippines in 56 days, three to four weeks faster than normal.
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 Pentlow Miscellany
Thomas Cavendish, son of the last named Thomas, was clerk of the pipe in the Exchequer, and by his wife, Alice Smith, was the father of George Cavendish, of Glemsford, in Suffolk, and of William.
Sir Villian Cavendish, brother of George, one of the commissioners for taking the survey of religious houses, and became the fortunate founder of the ducal families of Devonshire ans Newcastle, the latter now being extinct in that name, but the present Duke of Devonshire is the ninth in lineal descent from this Wiliam Cavendish.
George Goodday, his grandson, was of Bowers Hall, and of Gray's Inn, London, and had by Frances Alston, his wife, a son named Samuel, who died young, and Elizabeth, his daughter and heiress.
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 George Cavendish -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
George was an English courtier and (Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)) author and the brother of (Click link for more info and facts about William Cavendish) William Cavendish, the third husband of (Click link for more info and facts about Bess of Hardwick) Bess of Hardwick.
George married Margery Kemp, of Spains Hall, an heiress, and
Cavendish to be recognized as the earliest of the great English
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 Encyclopedia: George Cavendish
Sir John Cavendish of Cavendish (1346 - 15 June 1381) came from Cavendish, Suffolk, England.
Sir William Cavendish (1505 - 25 October 1557) was an English courtier who became one of Thomas Cromwells visitors of the monasteries when King Henry VIII annexed the property of the Catholic Church at the end of the 1530s, and Cavendish became quite wealthy from his share of those properties.
Cavendish is the name of a picturesque village in the Stour Valley in Suffolk, England.
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 BBC - History - Henry Cavendish (1731 - 1810)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Born into the aristocracy, with both the Duke of Devonshire and the Duke of Kent as grandfathers, his mother died when he was just two, after giving birth to his brother, Frederick.
Cavendish discovered nitric acid (HNO3), and proved that water was not an element but made up of gases.
He searched for phlogiston - the combustible element in all materials - and determined it to be hydrogen; it would not be until the end of the century that Lavoisier's theories regarding oxygen would gain common acceptance.
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 Cavendish Square   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cavendish Square is behind John Lewis (Oxford Street), and can be the start of a walk via Harley Street, New Cavendish Street and Marylebone High Street through to Baker Street Station or Regents Park.
Cavendish Square is one of the larger squares, ruined by the scheme to move cars around it, but quite pleasant in the centre.
A single statue in the Square is of Lord George Frederick Cavendish Bentinck, dating from 1848 - Thomas Campbell was the sculptor -it is a solid piece of work, with strong drapery including a heavy cloak and the treatment of the face being especially noble.
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 George Cavendish
1562), was the great-grandson of Sir John Cavendish from whom the Dukes of Devonshire and the Dukes of Newcastle inherited the family name of Cavendish.
He became a gentleman-usher to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in his late twenties.
The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
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 Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology | The Scenery of Sherwood Forest: Welbeck (1)
George Cavendish was of Glemsford in Suffolk; he married Margery, daughter of Sir William Kemp, of Spains Hall in Essex, niece of Sir Thomas More.
It is not improbable that this thought arose in the mind of Cavendish from contrasting his own lack of preferment with the rising fortunes of his brother, for when this biography was being written, William Cavendish was in the high tide of prosperity.
William Cavendish had continued in this office and was being rapidly enriched by receiving numerous grants of abbey lands in Derbyshire, Nottingham­shire, Dorset, and other counties.
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 George Cavendish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
George Cavendish (1500-c.1562), escritor inglés, el biographer en de Thomas cardinal Wolsey, era el más viejo hijo de Thomas Cavendish, vendedor de la pipa el ministerio de Hacienda, y su esposa, Alicia Smith de Padbrook Pasillo.
Cavendish era el grande-nieto de sir Juan Cavendish de quien los duques de Devonshire y los duques de Newcastle heredaron el nombre de familia de Cavendish.
George era un courtier y autor inglés y el hermano de Guillermo Cavendish, el tercer marido de Bess de Hardwick.
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 1937-1944HaverhillEcho.html FDLHS newspaper archive
William George Porlain of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, the driver of the lorry said he was laden with 120 trusses of clover.
He passed through Cavendish and noticed nothing unusual, the first he knew of the occurrence was when the Metropolitan Police sent for him late at night, he examined the lorry afterwards at the police station and noticed nothing unusual about it.
Marriage at Cavendish of Mr Harold Pawsey of Peyton Hall, Boxford, third son of Mr and Mrs Hugh Wake Pawsey of 10 acres, Wivenhoe and Miss Helen Mary Payne, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Dudley Payne of Blacklands, Cavendish.
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 George BOLEYN (2° V. Rochford)
George's date of birth is difficult to determine.
He was known as Viscount Rochford from 1529 onwards (after his father became Earl of Wiltshire), and this ceased to be merely a courtesy title in 1530.
215) that Rochford had committed sodomy, using information from George Cavendish's Metrical Visions, and that this was why he had been accused of incest with his sister to explain her alleged deformed fetus.
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 Scarlet Stiletto Short Story Award 2003
George Cavendish, of 17 Nightingale Road, Templestowe, has been charged with the murder, by strangulation, of a certain Chloe Waters, a prostitute of no fixed address on or about June 18th.
Cavendish, that the manner of, or reason for, his release, will not be in question.
Cavendish, it is quite impossible that he has murdered one, as we shall doubtless prove.” Jodie Bates tried hard to suppress a smile but was not quite successful as Patricia Cavendish observed.
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 CAVENDISH, GEORGE (1500-1562?) - Online Information article about CAVENDISH, GEORGE (1500-1562?)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It is not to be doubted that Cavendish had taken down notes of Wolsey's conversation and movements, for many years passed before his See also:
Hunter proved this to be impossible, and definitely asserted the claim of George.
Creighton, who insisted over and over again on the claim of Cavendish to be recognized as the earliest of the great English biographers and an individual writer of particular See also:
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 Cavendish, Henry --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
English physicist and chemist who conducted experiments in diverse fields, discovering such phenomena as the composition of air, the nature and properties of hydrogen, the specific heat of certain substances, the composition of water, and various properties of electricity.
English courtier and writer who won a minor but lasting reputation through a single work, his Life of Cardinal Wolsey, a landmark in the development of English biography, an important document to the student of Tudor history, and a rare source of information on the character of the author himself.
Cavendish applied to his subject methods of concrete observation in matters...
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 971
Charles Compton Cavendish, 1st Baron Chesham was the son of George Augustus Henry Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington and Elizabeth Compton.
Charles Compton William Cavendish, 3rd Baron Chesham was the son of William George Cavendish, 2nd Baron Chesham and Henrietta Frances Lascelles.
John Compton Cavendish, 4th Baron Chesham was the son of Charles Compton William Cavendish, 3rd Baron Chesham and Lady Beatrice Constance Grosvenor.
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 Bentinck, Lord William George Frederick Cavendish on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Although he entered Parliament in 1826, he was known primarily for his horse-racing activities until in 1846 he emerged as a leading opponent of the repeal of the corn laws.
His brilliant leadership, with Disraeli, of the protectionists was cut short by his sudden death.
George Stubbs: his patrons and collectors.(painter, horse paintings)(Cover Story)
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 Hereditary Peerages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But if Lord George's line had died out, then the dukedom could be traced back up to three more generations, all the way to the 1st Duke, and descend through the eldest of his other sons who had surviving legitimate male issue.
The title Duke of Gloucester was held by George III's brother William Henry (created before 1762), and was passed on to his son, who died without issue (and was later revived by George V for his son Henry, as noted above).
But her grandchildren by her daughter -- and also the children of her sister, who are the grandchildren of George VI -- are not princes or princesses, but merely whatever titles are derived from the ranks of their fathers, and the fact that their mothers were daughters of monarchs ir irrelevant.
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 Getting a Bang out of Gamow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
On their return to Leningrad from a later and equally unsuccessful attempt to escape, Gamow and Rho were more than a little surprised to find that the government had appointed him to represent the Soviet Union at the upcoming Solvay theoretical physics conference to be held in Brussels in October 1933.
However, he is best remembered for his work on nucleocosmogenesis (the process by which the elements are created out of more fundamental components) and the development of the physical theory of the big bang model of the universe, as well as for his part in the prediction of the existence of cosmic background radiation.
Eamon Harper, an associate professor of physics at GW and a specialist in theoretical nuclear and particle physics, is writing a biography of George Gamow.
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