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- William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, KG, KB, PC (c.16 December 1593 – 25 December 1676), who after 1665 styled himself as Prince William Cavendish, was an English courtier and supporter of the arts.
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William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, KG, KB, PC (c.16 December 1593 – 25 December 1676), who after 1665 styled himself as Prince William Cavendish, was an English courtier and supporter of the arts. He was a renowned horse breeder, as well as being patron of the playwright Ben Jonson and the intellectual group known as the ...
William Cavendish, 1st duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was a Royalist commander during the English Civil Wars and a noted patron of poets, dramatists, and other writers. The son of Sir Charles Cavendish, he attended St. John’s College, Cambridge, and through inheritances and royal favour became.
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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)William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire, was a compromise choice as First Lord of the Treasury. His tenure coincided with a period of political infighting and external threat.
Mar 28, 2013 · William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle was a poet, courtier and Royalist general with a love of art and architecture. But he is perhaps best known today for his love of horses and most...
May 23, 2018 · Newcastle was one of the leading royalist commanders during the Civil War. A man of vast estates in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, he made spectacular progress up the peerage ladder, moving from viscount (1620), to earl (1628), marquis (1643), and finally duke in 1665.
William Cavendish had little interest in life at court, but from 1595 to 1596 he was sheriff of Derbyshire, his local consequence being based on his status as a great landowner. Cavendish became more prominent after the accession of James I in 1603.
