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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire
Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, CBE (born April 27, 1944), is a British peer.
The Duke is well known in the world of horse racing and serves as Her Majesty's Representative at Ascot and chairman of Ascot Racecourse Ltd. In 1980 he was elected to the Jockey Club and in 1989 he was appointed its Senior Steward (that is, Chairman).
Despite the fact that the duke had not seen a doctor in the 14 days before his death, the coroner was not notified as he should have been.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Peregrine_Cavendish,_12th_Duke_of_Devonshire   (386 words)

  
 p144_duke D obit
The Duke of Devonshire was one of Britain's greatest landowners, with estates in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Sussex and Ireland.
The 11th Duke of Devonshire, one of the country's premier - and possibly least stuffy - aristocrats, died on the May Day bank holiday at his stately home, Chatsworth in Derbyshire, it was announced yesterday.
The duke, known as an easygoing man, opened Chatsworth to the public in the 1950s and, with his wife Deborah, made it a thriving business, attracting a half-million visitors a year to its art collections and acres of parkland.
www.crystal.dircon.co.uk /p144_duke_d_obit.htm   (988 words)

  
 Cavendish information - Search.com
Cavendish is the surname of a British noble family, also known as the House of Cavendish, descended from Sir John Cavendish of Cavendish in the country of Suffolk (c.
Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1895-1988) Mistress of the Robes to Elizabeth II
The 3rd to 9th Dukes of Portland were descended from the Cavendish family in the female line and took the surname Cavendish-Bentinck or a variant thereof.
domainhelp.search.com /reference/Cavendish   (673 words)

  
 Boston.com / Travel / Great and lordly legacy preserved in public
The new duke (Peregrine Cavendish, the only son among three children) is keen on horses.
In the grand entrance hall of the house is another contemporary work, a portrait of the late duke by Stephen Conroy, a British painter of a younger generation than Freud.
The 12th duke and his son, Lord Burlington, are the 16th and 17th generations of the Cavendish family to care for this great estate.
www.boston.com /travel/articles/2004/08/08/great_and_lordly_legacy_preserved_in_public?pg=3   (726 words)

  
 Chatsworth - History of Chatsworth and the Cavendish Family
In 1686 the 4th Earl (1640-1707; created 1st Duke of Devonshire in 1694 for his part in bringing William of Orange to the English throne) took down the South Front, and built new family rooms and a magnificent suite of State Apartments, intended for the reception of a Royal Visit from William and Mary.
The 2nd Duke was the grandfather of Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), the distinguished and eccentric scientist, who determined the composition of water, recognised hydrogen as an element and was 'the first man to weigh the world'.
The 10th Duke's death at the age of 55 was sudden and unexpected, and death duties at the maximum rate of 80% had to be paid.
www.chatsworth.org /learning/history.htm   (2626 words)

  
 Henry Cavendish - Famous Derbyshire People
Peregrine Cavendish, the 12th Duke of Devonshire, is the latest in a long line of Cavendish's who have served King, Queen and country - and themselves - for half a millennium.
Henry Cavendish's achievements were prodigious, and he went on to become the first to establish and identify the composition of water, and was the first to establish an accurate composition of the Earth's atmosphere.
Henry Cavendish died in 1810 at the age of seventy nine, and he left a very large estate which was used to endow the world-famous Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University in 1871.
www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk /content.php?categoryId=2527   (2060 words)

  
 Great and lordly legacy preserved in public - The Boston Globe
One of the greatest of the great, Chatsworth is still in the hands of the original owners, the Cavendish family, who became the earls and dukes of Devonshire.
As Marquess and Marchioness of Hartington, she and her husband, the 10th Duke's eldest son, would have succeeded to the dukedom had they not both perished, he in the war and she after.
That left the duke's second son, Andrew, and his wife, Deborah, to take on the title and the huge responsibility that includes caring for 13 acres of roof, much of it leaking when they rolled up their sleeves after the 10th Duke's death in 1950.
www.boston.com /travel/articles/2004/08/08/great_and_lordly_legacy_preserved_in_public?mode=PF   (1552 words)

  
 Irish Town, British Duke Battle Over Fish... Keralanext.com, Europe News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, the 12th Duke of Devonshire, argues that the fishing rights on the Blackwater in Cork are his by virtue of a grant by King James VI to his ancestor, the Earl of Cork, in 1613.
Even the duke recognized in a recent interview that there is something incongruous about his owning a castle and fishing rights in the Irish Republic.
Some local residents who tested the duke's claim a few years ago are appealing a conviction for trespass.
www.keralanext.com /news/?id=983529   (208 words)

  
 peregrine - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about peregrine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Peregrine Andrew Mornay Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire
Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Peregrine   (335 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/List of Dukes in the Peerages of the British Isles
The royal dukes are Dukes of the United Kingdom; but they rank higher in the order of precedence than the age of their titles would suggest, due to their close relationship to the monarch.
Marquess of Douglas and Clydedale, eldest son of the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon
Marquess of Lorne, eldest son of the Duke of Argyll
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/List_of_dukes_in_the_peerages_of_the_British_Isles   (634 words)

  
 Dukes of the United Kingdom (photos)... - Page 3 - Ask Andy FORUMS
Duke of Norfolk: this is the premier dukedom and this man has a hereditary post at the state opening of parliament.
These are Irish dukes, once considered premier in Ireland, have now become rather anonymous, including having sold the family pile and losing all their money by the early 20th century.
Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, son of the 11th duke.
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 explore - Travel in Lismore, Co. Waterford
It became Cavendish property in 1753, when Charlotte Boyle married the fourth Duke of Devonshire.
The 11th Duke was far from that, however.
As a second son, he was preparing for a career in publishing when news arrived, in 1944, that his elder brother had been killed on the Belgian Front.
www.explore.ie /ireland/article.php?ID=99   (470 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - nil and others
She married Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, son of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire and Lady Mary Alice Cecil, on 19 April 1941.
She was the daughter of Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and Hon.
She married William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, son of William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland and Lady Dorothy Cavendish, on 4 August 1795.
www.thepeerage.com /p960.htm   (831 words)

  
 New Statesman - Property scandal
The present head of the Cavendish family is Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire.
The Cavendish family, which first began to acquire vast tracts of land following the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century, and consolidated its wealth and position through marriage within the aristocracy, owns 65,000 acres of land in Britain and another 8,000 in the Republic of Ireland.
In well-modulated tones, he told me that the great landowners of Britain were "stewards" of the land: that without their presence, their care and their diligence, the British countryside would not be as well preserved as it is, or as attractive to tourists.
www.newstatesman.com /200409200005   (2018 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Derbyshire | Duke will move to ancestral home
Peregrine Cavendish, who inherited the title after his father's death a year ago, hopes to be living at the stately home by the end of the year.
As he unveiled a portrait of the 4th Duke of Devonshire, the Duke said he was looking forward to moving in.
Shortly after his father's death in May 2004, the duke said he and his wife would remain at Bolton Abbey, part of the Chatsworth estate in North Yorkshire, but he would be a frequent visitor to Chatsworth.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/derbyshire/4564215.stm   (201 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
the memoirs of the 11th Duke of Devonshire, who died this month.

The late Duke of Devonshire was a private man. I met him a few times, by arrangement, when he steadfastly refused to be moved away from the agreed interview material.
The late Duke of Devonshire was a private man. I met him a few times, by arrangement, when he steadfastly refused to be moved away from the agreed interview material.
The truth was that Andrew, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, MC, had a better rapport with the staff than many of his counterparts in commerce.
www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk /ViewArticle.aspx?sectionid=105&articleid=798398   (1978 words)

  
 Tyler Morning Telegraph - DUKE LOOKS BACK ON 'INHERITANCE' FOR TYLER OPENING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Cavendish, the 12th Duke of Devonshire, bantered amiably with the near-capacity crowd as he narrated his family's history of championing fine art and antiquities for the Tyler Museum of Art's unveiling of "The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth."
Perusing the museum's galleries just after the "Devonshire" installation was completed Friday afternoon, the duke betrayed a surfeit of pride in tracing his lineage through the artwork, antique furniture, fine jewelry and other heirlooms crowding the TMA galleries.
Yet Cavendish, who shared his own avid interest in collecting with the museum visitors who gathered to hear him speak, assured art aficionados that the possibility of a future exhibition on the magnitude of "Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth" is a distinct possibility.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14953471&BRD=1994&PAG=461&dept_id=226369&rfi=6   (847 words)

  
 Fishing news clippings, Ireland - Central Fisheries Board
A few unemployed southern Irish anglers are taking on a scion of Britain's high nobility in the person of the 12th Duke of Devonshire, Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, friend of the Prince of Wales and inheritor of fabulous wealth.
The Duke of Devonshire is taking legal action against the Irish government amid fears that its conservation policy will ruin his lucrative fishery on one of Ireland's finest salmon rivers.
The dispute between the duke, a close friend of the Prince of Wales and a major Anglo-Irish landowner, concerns the River Blackwater, a mecca for anglers which has been fished by Tiger Woods and Jeremy Paxman.
www.cfb.ie /clippings/index.htm   (2922 words)

  
 Eupedia : England Guide - Derbyshire - Peak District - Chatsworth House
Another William Cavendish was created Earl of Devonshire in 1618, and his great-great-grand-son, the 5th of 11 consecutive "William's" was made Duke of Devonshire and Marquess of Hartington by William of Orange in 1694.
Mary, Queen of the Scots was a prisoner at Chatsworth between 1569 and 1584 under the guard of the Earl of Shrewsbury.
The house was further altered and embellish with paintings and sculpture by the extravagant 6th Duke in the first half of the 19th century.
www.eupedia.com /england/chatsworth.shtml   (471 words)

  
 Duke backs right to roam on his land-News-UK-TimesOnline
THE Duke of Devonshire said yesterday that there was no reason why the new right to roam laws should not work.
Peregrine Cavendish, 58, who inherited the dukedom four months ago, spoke out to quell tensions among landowners and farmers on the issue.
The 12th Duke said the new law was important and “will help to bridge the divide between town and country”.
www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/news/uk/article484163.ece   (815 words)

  
 Lismore Castle
In 1753, the Castle and its lands passed to the fourth Duke of Devonshire following his marriage in 1748 to Lady Charlotte Boyle, the only surviving daughter and heiress of the fourth Earl of Cork (1695-1753).
The sixth Duke (1790-1858), known as the bachelor Duke, undertook the most extensive restoration of the Castle.
The present duke is Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire (b.
www.destinationseurope.com /ryder-cup-lismore-castle.htm   (509 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington and others
Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire b.
He is the son of Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire and Amanda Carmen Heywood-Lonsdale.
     William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington was styled as Earl of Burlington.
www.thepeerage.com /p1030.htm   (1414 words)

  
 The Ultimate HRH - American History Information Guide and Reference
In the British monarchy the title of HRH is associated with the rank of prince or princess.
This is especially important when a prince has another title such as Duke (or a princess the title of Duchess) by which he or she would usually be addressed.
For instance HRH The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was a prince and a member of the royal family while His Grace The Duke of Devonshire is a non-royal duke and not a member of the British royal family.
www.historymania.com /american_history/HRH   (173 words)

  
 Royal News 2006, Section III
In 1957 she married Lord Hugh Hastings Russell (1923-2005), son of Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford, and of his wife, née Louisa Whitwell.
Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, and of his wife, née Lady Margaret Bridgeman)] and of his second wife, née Christian Fiona Mackenzie [herself the daughter of Colin Hercules Mackenzie and of his wife, née Evelyn Coldagh Meade]).
In 1937 she married Richard Edward Osborne Cavendish, of Holker Hall (son of Lord Richard Cavendish, of the Dukes of Devonshire, and of his wife, née Lady Moyra Beauclerk).
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 Bloomberg.com: Muse
Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The Duke of Devonshire is getting into the art business with Sotheby's, allowing the auction house to place some $28 million of contemporary sculptures for sale in the garden of his family's 17th-century residence, Chatsworth.
A $300,000 woman in a bikini by Duane Hanson lolls near the duke's Antonio Canova marble in the sculpture gallery.
Peregrine Cavendish, 62, wearing a tweed jacket with a checked tie and pointy fl shoes, said in an interview during a Sept. 7 press lunch in his dining room.
www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aZN6oBOk9IWg&refer=home   (855 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
THE Duke of Devonshire is celebrating the life and passions of his father at Chatsworth throughout 2006.
In their first full season in residence, the 12th Duke, Peregrine Cavendish and the Duchess have overseen the creation of an eight-room exhibition in memory of Andrew Cavendish, who died in 2004 after more than half a century as head of the estate.
The debts meant many pieces of fine art were lost from the estate, but the Duke devoted much of his life to building a superb collection of pictures and sculptures.
www.matlocktoday.co.uk /ViewArticle.aspx?sectionid=749&articleid=1466052   (569 words)

  
 PETTIGREW PAPERS (Osborn Shelves Pettigrew)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
AL to Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex [1824 or later] Apr 21 + Arundale, Francis, 1807-1853.
ALS and AL to T. Pettigrew 1829 Feb, 1830 Nov One letter is about the election of the Duke of Sussex to the Presidency of the Royal Society.
About an attempt to gain the Duke of Sussex's patronage for a work purporting to be the Book of Jasher.
webtext.library.yale.edu /beinflat/osborn.PETTIGRE.htm   (10172 words)

  
 Social Diary 10/18/05 - Autumn in New York. A full moon over Manhattan.
The dukes of Devonshire have been devoted for centuries to the preservation of their celebrated and historic great English country house which has long inspired private collectors and museums all over the world.
The duke who inherited only last year, is Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, without his title, and it was interesting to watch them receive their guests who were quite pleased and proud to be meeting them.
The duke and the duchess, however, were just as pleased to be meeting the guests and so the admiration and pleasure was obviously entirely mutual.
newyorksocialdiary.com /socialdiary/2005/10_18_05/socialdiary10_18_05.php   (1033 words)

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