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  Duke of Devonshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Duke of Devonshire (William Cavendish) was born in 1672.
Duke of Devonshire (William Cavendish) was born in 1698.
Duke of Devonshire (William Cavendish) was born in 1720.
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 Duke of Devonshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Dukes of Devonshire are members of the aristocratic Cavendish family in the United Kingdom.
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.
Many of the Dukes of Devonshire have been prominent politicians, including one prime minister, one leader of the Liberal Party, and one Governor-General of Canada.
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: Cavendish_Laboratory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Department is named after Henry Cavendish, a famous physicist, and a member of the Dukes of Devonshire branch of the Cavendish family.
Another family member, William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, was Chancellor of the University, and he gave money to endow the laboratory in memory of his learned relative.
For their work while in the Cavendish Laboratory, they were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962, together with Maurice Wilkins of King's College London, himself a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge.
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 List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
96 (inv 1399) Humphrey (Plantagenet), styled "of Lancaster." Duke of Gloucester.
312 (inv 1543) William (Parr) Marquess of Northampton.
Afterwards Duke of Edinburgh, reigning duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1893.
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 William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1829, he married a niece of the 6th Duke, Lady Blanche Howard (1812 - 1840), daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle.
He made vast (and ultimately unsuccessful) investments in heavy industry at Barrow in Furness, and had his nearby country house Holker Hall rebuilt in its present form after it was gutted by a fire in 1871.
Cavendish's three sons became Members of Parliament: Spencer, MP for Lancashire North 1857-91, led the Liberal Party and was asked three times to be Prime Minister by Queen Victoria; Frederick was MP for the West Riding and Chief Secretary for Ireland, assassinated in 1882; Edward was MP for Derbyshire West.
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 Articles - Cavendish Professor of Physics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Cavendish Professorship is one of the senior Professorships in Physics at Cambridge University and was founded by grace of 9 February 1871 alongside the famous Cavendish Laboratory which was completed three years later.
The endowment was granted by William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire.
In 1971 it was officially renamed from the 'Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics' to the 'Cavendish Professorship of Physics'.
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 Duke of Devonshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Duke's subsidiary titles are: Marquess of Hartington (created 1694), Earl of Devonshire (1618), Earl of Burlington (1831), Baron Cavendish of Hardwick (1605) and Baron Cavendish of Keighley (1831).
The Duke of Devonshire's eldest son may use the courtesy title Marquess of Hartington, whilst the eldest son of the eldest son may use the title Earl of Burlington; any sons he may have would use the title Baron Cavendish.
Peregrine Andrew Mornay Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire (b.
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 Read about Cavendish Laboratory at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Cavendish Laboratory and learn about Cavendish ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Dukes of Devonshire branch of the Cavendish family.
William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, was Chancellor of the University, and he gave money to endow the laboratory in memory of his learned relative.
For their work while in the Cavendish Laboratory, they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1962.
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 Duke of Devonshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
They are related to the Dukes of Newcastle with whom they share the family name of Cavendish.
The Duke's second title, Marquess of Hartington, is used as a courtesy title by his eldest son; the Marquess of Hartington's eldest son uses the title Earl of Burlington.
The Duke of Devonshire holds the subsidiary titles of Marquess of Hartington, Earl of Devonshire, Earl of Burlington, Baron Cavendish of Hardwick, and Baron Cavendish of Keighley.
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 Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire - Biocrawler definition:Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (23 July,1833 - 24 March,1908) was a British Liberal statesman, previously known (1858-1891) as Marquess of Hartington (a courtesy title).
Cavendish was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and entered Parliament in 1857.
He was married in 1892, at the age of 59, to Louisa Frederica Augusta von Alten, the wife of the late William Drogo Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester.
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 Eastbourne Web: Eastbourne's fastest on-line directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1831, Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish was raised to the peerage as the 1st Earl of Burlington.
William, the 6th Duke of Devonshire, embarked on a rebuilding programme of the ducal seats with the consequence that, at his death in 1858, he had amassed enormous debts.
It is this William Cavendish, as 7th Duke of Devonshire, who largely saw the development of Eastbourne through until his death in 1891.
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 Business Software Review : Article 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (June 7, 1757 - March 30, 1806), born Lady Georgiana Spencer, was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and mother of William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.
Among her descendants are the present Duke of Devonshire (via her granddaughter).
This son William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire died unmarried in 1858; her daughters became Countess of Carlisle and Countess Granville (married to a former lover of her maternal aunt Lady Bessborough).
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 Eastbourne Web: Eastbourne's fastest on-line directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1858, the second Earl of Burlington became the 7th Duke of Devonshire.
In 1872, the Devonshire Club was founded for the benefit of visitors and residents, and in 1874 Devonshire Park was opened for "High Class Recreation".
Devonshire Baths, the brainchild of G. Wallis, was opened in 1874, with its ingenious facility for naturally replenishing the seawater as the tide rose and fell.
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 Castles in Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lismore Castle is a castle in County Waterford in the Republic of Ireland.
The earldom of Burlington was recreated for Lord George Cavendish, a younger son of the 4th Duke and Lady Charlotte Boyle, Baroness Clifford.
It was his grandson the William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire who succeeded his first cousin once removed, the William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, as the 7th Duke.
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 Remains To Be Seen: Purveyor of Photographs and Vintage Items
Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Ulster and Kent, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom (H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh).
CDV of the Seventh Duke of Devonshire, identified in period hand mount verso.
William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire (April 27,1808 -December 21, 1891), was the great-grandson of the 4th duke and grands...
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 959
She married Lt.-Col. Lord Edward Cavendish, son of William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire and Lady Blanche Georgiana Howard, on 3 August 1865.
She married Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, son of Lt.-Col. Lord Edward Cavendish and Emma Elizabeth Lascelles, on 30 July 1892.
She married Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, son of Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire and Lady Evelyn Emily Mary Petty-FitzMaurice, on 21 April 1917.
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 DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Duke's subsidiary titles are: ''Marquess of Hartington'' (created 1694), ''Earl_of_Devonshire'' (1618), Earl_of_Burlington (1831), ''Baron Cavendish of Hardwick'' (1605) and ''Baron Cavendish of Keighley'' (1831).
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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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 958
     William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire was born on 27 April 1808.
She married William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, son of William Cavendish and Louisa O'Callaghan, on 6 August 1829.
     William Cavendish was born on 8 October 1831.
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 Cambridge Physics - The Cavendish Laboratory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1861 William Cavendish, the 7th Duke of Devonshire, had been appointed as Chancellor of the University.
Devonshire was related to the famous physicist Henry Cavendish, and had himself made a fortune through the Industrial Revolution.
On the 10th October 1870 Devonshire offered £6,300 to cover the cost of building the new laboratory for experimental physics.
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 Art Fresh : Article 'John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Because the first duke had no sons, the title was allowed (by a special Act of Parliament) to pass to his eldest daughter in her own right.
However, George Spencer, the 5th Duke of Marlborough, obtained a Royal Licence to assume and bear the additional surname and arms of his famous ancestor, the 1st Duke of Marlborough, and thus became George Spencer-Churchill.
The 7th Duke of Marlborough was the paternal grandfather of the British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
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 Business Software Review : Article 'Spencer Williams'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Williams was reserved or contradictory in talking about his early life, perhaps because he grew up with underworld ties in the Storyville District.
Williams was performing in Chicago by 1907, and moved to New York City about 1916.
Williams toured Europe with bands from 1925 to 1928; during this time he wrote for Josephine Baker at the Folies Bergýres in Paris.
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 3rd Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, born 1720,
Cavendish Row, Dublin (top of O'Connell St at Parnell Square) is after the 3rd Duke.
The old Cavendish Laboratory was in the early 20th cent.
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 Holker Hall
Undaunted by this catastrophe, William Cavendish, the 7th Duke of Devonshire, began plans to rebuild the west wing on an even grander scale, and employed the architects Paley and Austin of Lancaster.
The 7th Duke preferred it to any of his other properties, and in 1908 when the house was left to the grandfather of Lord Cavendish, and not to his elder brother Victor, the Duke muttered bitterly ‘Holker, the best loved house in England’.
One of the greatest joys of Holker is the garden, and the family are indebted to the generations of keen, enthusiastic and gifted gardeners for the wonderful collection of trees and shrubs.
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 Articles - Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Most Noble Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (23 July 1833 – 24 March 1908) was a British Liberal statesman, previously known (1858-1891) as Marquess of Hartington (a courtesy title).
In 1875 he became Leader of the Liberal opposition, and in 1880, after the fall of Benjamin Disraeli's government, he was invited to form a government, but chose instead to serve under William Ewart Gladstone as Secretary of State for India (1880–1882) and Secretary of State for War (1882–1885).
He was married in 1892, at the age of 59, to Louisa Frederica Augusta von Alten, widow of the late William Drogo Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester.
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 About Eastbourne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Its creation is attributed to William Cavendish, the 7th Duke of Devonshire who was inspired to develop the natural beauty of Eastbourne and create a seaside resort 'built by gentlemen for gentlemen.'
At the centre was the 80ft wide Devonshire Place leading to the three-tiered promenade which then stretched along the shore for a mile and a half.
During this period the Devonshire Park Orchestra was formed and was the first orchestra of symphonic size in a UK seaside resort.
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William Cavendish, 4th Earl+1st Duke of Devonshire (1641-1707)
William Spencer Compton Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858)
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 Duke of Devonshire - TheBestLinks.com - Earl of Devonshire, Liberal Party (UK), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Empty Roads Enjoy the View Car-Free in the UK - Arnside, Lancashire: Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A 16th century stately home, owned by the Cavendish family, Holker Hall was badly damaged by fire in 1871.
The entire west wing was destroyed, and several paintings and items of furniture were lost.
The wing was rebuilt by William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire and is described as the best Elizabethan Gothic building in the north of England.
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