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- He was killed in action in the Second World War during fighting in the Low Countries in September 1944 whilst leading a company of the Coldstream Guards.
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Died 2 October 1764, Spa, the Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium) Dates in office 1756 to 1757. Political party Whig. Major acts
Sir William Cavendish died on 25 October 1557, and his widow married Sir William Saintloe on 14 December. Saintloe had William and Henry Cavendish educated at Eton College from 21 November 1560. William Cavendish matriculated from Clare College, Cambridge, on 29 September 1567.
Death and legacy. He died on 3 March 1626, and was buried at St Peter's Church, Edensor. [1] The 1st Earl of Devonshire and his brother Henry (died 1616) are commemorated through the Cavendish Memorial inside the church, a magnificent early-17th-century church monument.
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The Cavendish inheritance descended in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the female line, passing first from Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne (1630-1691) to his daughter, Margaret (1661-1716) who married John Holles, 4th Earl of Clare (1662-1711). Their daughter, Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles (1694-1755), inherited ...
Cavendish, William, 1st Duke of Newcastle,A General System of Horsemanship, introduced by W.C. Steinkraus with commentary by E. Schmit-Jensen (London, 2000)Cavendish, William, 1st Duke of Newcastle,The Country Captain, prepared by A. Johnson and revised by H.R. Woudhuysen (Oxford, 1999)Cavendish, William, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Dramatic Works(Oxford, 1996)Cavendish, William, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Ideology and Politics on the Eve of Restoration: Newcastle's advice to Charles II, transcribed and introduced by T.P. Slaughter (Philadelphia, 1984)Cavendish, Margaret, The Life of William Cavendish,ed. C.H. Firth (2nd revised edition, 1906) [King’s Meadow Campus East Midlands Collection Not 468.V38 CAV]Longueville, Thomas, The First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne(London, 1910) [King’s Meadow Campus East Midlands Collection Not 468.V38 CAV]Trease, Geoffrey, Portrait of a Cavalier: William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle(London, 1979)John Carr of York (1723-1807) was commissioned by the Duke to redesign the decoration and furnishings of the private drawing rooms of the first floor at Chatsworth, and to build Buxton Crescent. The Duke died in 1811 and was succeeded by his eldest son, William Spencer Cavendish.
After the defeat at Marston Moor in July 1644, a battle fought against his advice, he went into exile in Europe. He returned to England after the Stuart Restoration in 1660, and although created Duke of Newcastle in 1665, he remained on the fringes of the court and became critical of Charles II.
It was shortly after Wolsey’s death that Cavendish was given his first known assignment: in December 1530 he was authorized to receive the surrender of Sheen priory. Within two years he had entered Cromwell’s private service, in which he was to handle both his master’s and the King’s money.
