The Cavendish banana subgroup is named after the Dwarf Cavendish cultivar within its subgroup, which is named in honour of William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, who acquired an early specimen, and from whose hothouses the cultivars were first developed for commercial exploitation worldwide.
The patron of the Museum Society was William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, and the President was Sir George Crewe who was a keen naturalist.
It obtained for him the post of librarian to the Duke of Devonshire, and, subsequently, access to the chief collections of early English literature throughout the kingdom, especially to the treasures of Bridgewater House.
Two Grade I listed statues at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England, collected by the 6th Duke of Devonshire, dating from c.1570–1304 BC and said to represent Sekhmet, are believed to have come from this site.
460 BC, found at Tamassos, 1836, and purchased by the Duke of Devonshire (British Museum)
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James Lees-Milne: The Bachelor Duke: Life of William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, 1790-1858 (1991).