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  Sir William Cavendish - LoveToKnow 1911
His father, Thomas, was a descendant of Sir John Cavendish, the judge, who in 1381 was murdered by Jack Straw's insurgent peasants at Bury St Edmunds.
In 1541 he was auditor of the court of augmentations, in 1546 treasurer of the king's chamber, and was knighted and sworn of the privy council.
Cavendish acquired large properties from the spoils of the monasteries, but in accordance with the wish of his third wife Elizabeth he sold them to purchase land in Derbyshire.
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 John Cavendish
John Cavendish is descended from Robert de Gernon who lived during the rein of Henry I and who gave a large amount of property to the Abbey of Gloucester.
One of his brothers, Roger Cavendish, was the ancestor of Thomas Cavendish known as "The Navigator".
His son, John Cavendish, had killed Wat Tyler, one of the leaders of the Revolt, for which he was knighted at Smithfield and received a large grant of money from the King.
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 Thomas Cavendish
Thomas Cavendish (1555-1592 was born in Trimley St. Martin near Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
He was a descendant of Roger Cavendish, brother to Sir John Cavendish from whom the Dukes of Devonshire and the Dukes of Newcastle derive their family name of Cavendish.
A second expedition in 1591 ended in disaster, and Thomas Cavendish died off Ascension.
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 Thomas Cavendish (Candish) - LoveToKnow 1911
CAVENDISH [CANDISH], Thomas (1555-1592), the third circumnavigator of the globe, was born at Trimley St Martin, Suffolk.
John Davis accompanied him, but the voyage (undertaken with five vessels)was an utter failure,much of the fault lying with Cavendish himself, who falsely accused Davis, with his last breath, of deserting him (May 20, 1592).
He died and was buried at sea, on the way home, in the summer of 1592.
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 Thomas Cavendish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Thomas Cavendish (or Candish) (1555-1592) was born in Trimley St. Martin near Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
While others had preceded Cavendish in circumnavigating the globe, this had not been their intent at the outset of their voyages.
Cavendish then went back to Brazil where he lost most of his crew in a battle against the Portuguese.
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 Thomas Cavendish
Cavendish sailed with Sir Richard Grenville’s expedition to America in 1585, and upon his return to England began to plan for his own circumnavigation of the globe, this time modeled on sir Francis Drake’s voyage.
Cavendish sailed from Plymouth England with three boats in 1586, and generally followed Drake’s route of 1577-80 and reached the Cape Verde islands before starting to head West.
Cavendish had successfully circumnavigated the globe in 26 months, 7 months less time than it had taken Sir Francis Drake in 1591.
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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).
It took Thomas Cavendish and the tremendous commercial loss of the Santa Ana to wake everybody up to the fact the the Pacific was not a Spanish lake anymore.
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 GEORGE CAVENDISH (1500... - Online Information article about GEORGE CAVENDISH (1500...
Cavendish was wholly devoted to Wolsey's interests, and also he saw in this See also:
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:
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:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /CAU_CHA/CAVENDISH_GEORGE_1500_1562_.html   (920 words)

  
 Thomas Cavendish - Heritage Education Program - National Park Service - Cape Hatteras Group
Cavendish participated both in the gathering of valuable information and in an event which led to lasting problems with the Native Americans and to the eventual abandonment of the colony.
Although the records are not clear, Cavendish probably sailed with Grenville on 25 August 1585 and arrived in Plymouth on 18 September.
Cavendish did not return to Roanoke Island the next year and had no more involvement with the Roanoke voyages.
www.nps.gov /fora/cavendish.htm   (1040 words)

  
 Explorers: THOMAS CAVENDISH
Thomas Cavendish was born in 1560 and at the age of 32, died.
Although he became known for many things, one of the first and most important was his command of a ship in the flotilla, which was under the control of Sir Richard Grenville.
From there, Cavendish continued on his journey, taking a route that would take him through the Philippines, the East Indies, and then the Cape of Good Hope.
www.latinartmall.com /blogs/explore/2006/02/thomas-cavendish.html   (269 words)

  
 Lodge Thomas: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
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Mrs Harry Thomas went to the lodge immediately after...he had gone to the lodge with the intention...pain.
Mayor Thomas Hyde, however, said their efforts were premature because no formal plans...
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 romantictimes.com: books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Alicia Brooms guardian betroths her to Thomas Cavendish when she is just a child of seven to secure her future and keep her royal lineage a secret.
Known as a lackwit to everyone but those closest to him, Thomas, the new and reluctant Earl of Thornsbury, is stunned and dumfounded when his angelic betrothed turns up on his doorstep.
When Thomas waspish sister-in-law Isabel plots to have Wolf Hall and the Cavandish riches, Alicia fears all may be lost.
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 Cavendish — FactMonster.com
George Cavendish - Cavendish, George, 1500–1561?, English gentleman, usher to Cardinal Wolsey.
Henry Cavendish - Cavendish, Henry, 1731–1810, English physicist and chemist, b.
Newcastle, William Cavendish, duke of - Newcastle, William Cavendish, duke of, 1593?–1676, English soldier and politician.
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 Thomas Cavendish Summary
A member of Parliament, Cavendish began his maritime career around 1585 when he joined British admiral Sir Richard Grenville (1541?-1591) on a voyage to the colony of Virginia.
Cavendish then went back to Brazil were he lost most of his crew in a battle against the Portuguese.
Cavendish was accompanied by two Japanese adventurers, only known through their Christian names, Christopher and Cosmas, during his expeditions between 1587 and 1591.
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 NPG 6677; Thomas Cavendish
This print was produced along with a companion image depicting Cavendish's predecessor and inspiration, Sir Francis Drake.
The portrait is the only certain lifetime image of Cavendish and several later portraits in other media appear to derive from this engraving.
The Latin inscription encircling the bust and map states that the image shows Cavendish as he was in life at 28 years old in 1588, the year in which he returned from his circumnavigation.
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 Thomas Cavendish — Infoplease.com
Margaret Cavendish's Dramatic Utopias and the Politics of Gender.(Critical Essay)
Surface and Interiority: Self-Creation in Margaret Cavendish's The Claspe.
Pure Resistance: Queer(y)ing Virginity in William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure....
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 Thomas Cavendish
CAVENDISH, Thomas, English navigator, born in 1564; died in 1593.
Cavendish secured his richest booty in the capture of the Spanish galleon "Santa Anna," of 700 tons, which, together with a valuable cargo, had 122,000 Spanish dollars in its stores.
He then sailed from California, crossed the Pacific to the Ladrone islands, went through the Indian archipelago and strait of Java, and around the Cape of Good Hope, reaching England on 9 September, 1588, having circumnavigated the globe in a shorter time than any preceding navigator.
www.famousamericans.net /thomascavendish   (430 words)

  
 Thomas Williams Fine Art Ltd: Lucy Cavendish. Recent Work   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Cavendish, born in 1973, trained at City and Guilds Art School for a degree in Fine Art (1994).
Cavendish’s work is characterised by a broodiness that reflects the landscape of her native Cumbria.
These images are unusually intimate; Cavendish invests much time in examining the subject before and throughout the painting process, often choosing at first to focus on tiny details which become an indistinguishable part of the whole as the work progresses.
www.artnet.com /event/103211/lucy-cavendish-recent-work.html   (343 words)

  
 Bulk Tobacco Tin Tobacco Dunhill Pipe Tobacco
Cavendish is not a type of tobacco plant.
Cavendish is, rather, a PROCESS by which tobaccos are prepared.
A visit to the English colony of Virginia was made by Admiral Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Thomas Cavendish, at the wish of Queen Elizabeth.
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 HISTORIC ERROR: A VINTAGE-LOOKING LETTER TURNS OUT TO BE A RE-ENACTOR'S MISPLACED PROP.
A letter dated 411 years ago and purportedly signed by Elizabethan explorer Thomas Cavendish recently was discovered in a Manteo boat shed.
Isil is considered the local expert on Cavendish, one of the more colorful of the Elizabethan explorers who came to Roanoke Island as part of the Grenville expedition in 1585.
In one of his few existing letters, Isil said Cavendish wrote a friend before he died saying that he was shaking and ill. On that trip, Cavendish was attempting to reach China by way of the Strait of Magellan.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1996/vp960929/09290051.htm   (862 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Thomas Cavendish": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
1500-c.1562) Cavendish was the elder son of Thomas Cavendish, clerk of the pipe during the reign of Henry...
Thomas Cavendish plundered the Manila galleon Santa Ana at Cabo San Lucas in 1587, and so many ships were captured in Baha...
But if Edward Fenton's is a sad story, that of Thomas Cavendish plumbs tragic depths of Sophoclean profundity.
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 Cavendish Thomas - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Cavendish Thomas - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, on April 5, 1588, Hobbes was the son of a vicar who left his parish and his family in disgrace when Hobbes was a child...
Phoenix Park Murders, killings in Phoenix Park, Dublin, of Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish, British Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry...
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A second circumnavigation was planned in 1591 but ended in disaster when his fleet of five ships was dispersed in storms and he died at sea in the north Atlantic in May 1592.
Cavendish was  related by marriage to the famous English cartographer and Italian exile, Sir Robert Dudley [1573-1649] famous for his maritime Atlas L'Arcano del Mare (Secrets of the Seas) first published in Florence in 1646.
Here Cavendish looks to the left and holds the world map in his right hand, whilst in the original Hondius portrait he looks to the right and holds the world map in his left hand.
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 Cavendish o candish thomas Cavendish o candish thomas Cavendish o candish thomas Cavendish o candish thomas (via ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 Thomas Cavendish Beschreibung in Library - Definition und Buch-Tipp. (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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Sir Thomas Cavendish (* 1555 in Trimley St. Martin bei Ipswich, Suffolk, England; † Februar 1592 auf dem Atlantik) war ein englischer Entdecker und der dritte Erdumsegler.
Cavendish studierte kurze Zeit in Cambridge, rüstete dann aber aus eigenen Mitteln drei Schiffe aus, um am 26.07 1586 von Plymouth aus die Erde zu umsegeln.
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 Thomas Cavendish - Wikipédia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Thomas Cavendish le navigateur né en 1555 à Trimley St. Martin près d'Ipswich, Suffolk, Angleterre mort en 1592 à Ascension, fut un marin anglais.
Il était le fils de Roger Cavendish, frère de Sir John Cavendish duquel les ducs du Devonshire et les ducs de Newcastle dérivent leur nom de famille de Cavendish.
Thomas partagea avec Sir Richard Grenville l'expédition en Virginie en 1585.
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 Eyewitness accounts of the sacking
The most widely read account is that of Francis Pretty, a crew member with Thomas Cavendish.
He chronicled Cavendish’s circumnavigation of the world and his account was first published by Richard Hakluyt in his 3-volume The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation...
He blamed certain people, especially the pilot Miguel Sanchez, who were captured by Cavendish earlier for betraying the conditions under which the Santa Ana would be arriving in that area.
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 Lodge, Thomas - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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Monstrous conceptions and Lodge's 'Robin the Devil.' (Thomas Lodge)
Polishing up the servant's quarters; GARETH THOMAS: MP enjoys entertaining at a lodge originally built for estate labourers.(Features)
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 The 1995 Durham Thomas Harriot Seminar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Durham (England) Thomas Harriot Seminar met in Durham on December 18-20, 1995.
Maxwell's paper in particular had Roanoke colonization connections, discussing Thomas Cavendish's role in the1585 expedition, highlighting such things as his navigational skills and his role in mediating the dispute between Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville.
The Harriot Seminar meets yearly to discuss various aspects of European Renaissance culture, especially in the variety of fields studied by Thomas Harriot, a member of the 1585 Roanoke colonization venture.
www.ecu.edu /rcro/Newsletter/3-2/Harriot.htm   (138 words)

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