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4 days ago · In 1618, William Cavendish was created Earl of Devonshire, and the title has continued ever since in this noble family, who in 1694 were elevated to the dukedom. n7. Eventually heiress of her father, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, who had married one of the co-heiresses of Humphry de Bohun, Earl of Hereford. n8. He was the younger son ...
1 day ago · The Duke of Dorset: 15 December 1750; William Cavendish (1720-1764) 4th Duke of Devonshire: 2 April 1755; William Cavendish (1720-1764) 4th Duke of Devonshire, who brought Lismore Castle, County Waterford, into the Cavendish family by his marriage. Painting by Thomas Hudson. The Duke of Bedford: 3 January 1757; The Earl of Halifax: 3 April 1761
4 days ago · The youngest of the Mitford sisters, Debo married Lord Andrew Cavendish, younger son of the 10th Duke of Devonshire, in 1941, and expected to live quietly as the wife of a country squire. But when Lord Andrew’s older brother was killed in the Second World War and his father unexpectedly died a few years later, at the age of 55, he inherited the dukedom, as well as Chatsworth, and Debo became ...
2 days ago · Chatsworth House, childhood home of Lord James, was inherited by his brother the 2nd Duke. Cavendish was the third son of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire of Chatsworth House, member of the House of Cavendish, and his wife Lady Mary Butler, daughter of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde of Kilkenny Castle, member of the Butler Dynasty.
5 days ago · His succesor William, surnamed the Lion, had an interview with King Henry II. at this city in 1158, but parted without accommodating the differences then subsisting between them, in consequence of which the Scottish King did not receive the honour of knighthood, as had been intended.
5 days ago · The government of Great Britain was under the joint leadership of Prime Minister Robert Walpole (in the House of Commons) and Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (in the House of Lords), from 1721 until Townshend departed from the government in 1730.
5 days ago · He was created Earl of Burlington in 1831, and at his death in 1834 he was succeeded by his grandson William second earl, who became seventh Duke of Devonshire in 1858. On his death in 1891 Holker descended to a grandson Victor C. W. Cavendish, (fn. 27) who succeeded his uncle as Dake of Devonshire in 1908, Holker then becoming the property of ...
