This is the historical fine and decorative art collection of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, including "one of the great unknown British aristocratic collections of plate".
Cavendish Laboratory | Lord Frederick Cavendish | William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland | Henry Cavendish | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire | Thomas Cavendish | Cavendish Square | William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle | Marshall Cavendish | Lord George Bentinck | George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington | Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Cavendish | William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland | William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland | William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire | William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland | Lord William Bentinck | Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington | Cavendish, Suffolk | Winifred Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland | William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland | William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland | Timothy Bentinck | North Bentinck Arm | Lord George Cavendish | Lord Charles Cavendish | John Bentinck | Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland |
From 1922 to 1925 he was a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory (in Lord Rutherford's group).
At the village of Lea, just south of Gainsborough, they met an advanced guard of 100 horse, part of Cavendish's army.
After the Second World War, the theatre continued to serve primarily as a cinema, although the Literary and Dramatic Societies of local schools Buxton College and Cavendish Grammar School staged annual performances of either Shakespeare, such as Hamlet (1966), Coriolanus (1968) and Macbeth (1970), or modern works, such as Bertold Brecht's Life of Galileo (1967) and Dylan Thomas's The Doctor & the Devils (1969).
Cavendish Crescent in Bath, Somerset, is a Georgian crescent built in the early 19th century to a design by the architect John Pinch the elder.
Sir Lawrence Bragg, the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, where Watson and Crick worked, gave a talk at Guy's Hospital Medical School in London on Thursday 14 May 1953 which resulted in an article by Ritchie Calder in The News Chronicle of London, on Friday 15 May 1953, entitled "Why You Are You. Nearer Secret of Life."
Sir Lawrence Bragg became Cavendish Professor just before the outbreak of the Second World War, which resulted in many staff joining various defence research establishments, notably to develop radar.
Author Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in nearby New London during the late Victorian era,and after her mother's death was brought to Cavendish to be raised in the home of her maternal grandparents, who had a house and small farm immediately east of the Cavendish United Presbyterian Cemetery at the intersection of the Cavendish Road and Cawnpore Lane.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and historian, Nobel prize winner
Lord Charles Bentinck (1780–1826), father of the priest, hence great-great-grandfather of Elizabeth II
Lord Howard de Walden married Lady Lucy Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (c. 1813 – 29 July 1899), daughter of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, at All Souls' Church in Marylebone on 8 November 1828.
At the 1922 general election, White faced a new Unionist opponent but another member of the Cavendish family, the Marquess of Hartington.
Sothern died at his home in Cavendish Square, London, at the age of 54 and is buried in Southampton Old Cemetery, Southampton.
In 1845 she married Richard Cavendish Boyle (1812–86), a younger son of the 8th Earl of Cork; R. C. Boyle served as the rector of Marston Bigot in Somerset (1836–75) and later as Queen Victoria's chaplain.
Bess of Hardwick (1527–1608), Elizabethan courtier, married to Sir William Cavendish
Major-General The Honourable Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, GCMG, KCB, KCH (6 July 1783 – 11 January 1837), styled The Honourable from 1806 to 1837, was a British military officer, the second son of the 3rd Earl of Bessborough and Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough.
Tschumi remained with the Duke of Portland until the Duke’s death in 1943, and thereafter helped the new Duke and Duchess, and the Dowager Duchess, for 5 or 6 months of each year.
Gemini Somatics was founded by Joseph Cavendish and is based in Riverside, Oregon.
Abercromby married Lady Julia Janet Georgiana Duncan (b. 1840), the daughter of Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown and his wife Juliana Cavendish Philips, at the earl's residence Camperdown House on 6 October 1858.
Conceived by the Cavendishes, Dukes of Newcastle, in the later part of the Nineteenth century, to serve the Park, and estate of Clumber.
Henri Louis Marie van Schaik (July 24, 1899 in Delft – August 19, 1991 in Cavendish, United States) was a Dutch horse rider who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (1863–1931), British MP for Norfolk North-West and Nottingham South, Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland
Initially taking the name of Homerton New College at Cavendish College, it shortly became just Homerton College, Cambridge, with John Charles Horobin as the first Principal.
Although Wat Tyler, the leader of the revolt was struck down by William Walworth, mayor of London, during negotiations on 15 June, John Cavendish, the second son of the Chief Justice, gave the finishing stroke to Wat Tyler, the lord mayor having only wounded him in the neck.
The latter year Pitt made him Lord Privy Seal, a position he would hold under five prime Ministers (Pitt, Addington, Pitt again, Portland, Perceval and Liverpool) for the next 35 years, except between 1806 and 1807 when Lord Grenville was in office.
In 1618 Sir William Cavendish sent him to London to learn about the latest architectural fashions and upon his return he added the external balconies and was responsible for the design of the Terrace Range and Cavendish Apartments which stand along the ridge, overlooking the river valley to the west.
On 12 June, Wrawe attacked Sir Richard Lyons' property at Overhall, advancing on to the towns of Cavendish and Bury St Edmunds in west Suffolk the next day, gathering further support as they went.
Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Alice Cavendish CVO (born 24 April 1926) was a childhood friend of Queen Elizabeth II and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret from the late-1940s until the latter's death in 2002 .
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It is believed she introduced Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1951 and although she herself never married, Elizabeth Cavendish did form a close relationship with the writer and future Poet Laureate, John Betjeman that same year and was called by Betjeman's daughter, Candida, her father's 'beloved second wife'.
In 1815 he eloped with his mistress, Lady Abdy, daughter of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, and Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland, and wife of Bentinck's friend Sir William Abdy, 7th Baronet.
George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington (1754-1834), known as Lord George Cavendish until 1831, politician
In 1766, the Genevan Romantic and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau met Bentinck, admired her knowledge of botany despite his general belief that women could not be scientific, and offered his services as her "herborist" (plant collector).
Cavendish, along with former President Jimmy Carter, led the grassroots campaign to free American teacher Aijalon Gomes from North Korea.
The name of Bentinck came from the family name of the Earl of Portland who was then based at Welbeck Abbey in nearby Clumber Park, and the current Earl is the BBC radio actor Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland; he is best known for playing David Archer in The Archers.
The bay was named after the Duke of Portland, a Secretary of State and later Prime Minister of Great Britain, by Lieutenant James Grant sailing on the Lady Nelson, on 7 December 1800.
This was unfinished when Brown died at Venice in 1883, but some further work was done on it by his executor George Cavendish-Bentinck, before in 1889 the completion of the work was taken over by Horatio Brown (no relation).
Professor Richard E. Hills, former head of the Cavendish Astrophysics Group and winner of the Jackson-Gwilt Medal for astronomy
When Chief Justice Sir John Cavendish was killed in the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, Tresilian was appointed to take over the position.
1) Baroness Henriette Luisa Bentinck (b. in London, 1949–2010), the daughter of Baron Adolph Bentinck and Baroness Gabrielle Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon.
The treaty arose after assemblies of Corsican notables met in Bastia, Saint-Florent, and L'Île-Rousse, and sent an invitation to Bentinck to send troops and take control of Corsica from French imperial forces.
One ship of the United States Navy under a lend lease program has been named Bentinck in honor of John Bentinck.
In 1922, he took charge of administrative arrangements for the Lausanne Conference.
Sidings, however, were provided for the Duke of Portland.
After deregulation in 1986, all three services were rerouted to serve Stephenson Square, Cavendish Road and Bloxwich Lane, leaving the northern part of Stephenson Road unserved by buses with the exception of a short-lived Midland Red North service, the X1 between Cannock and Birmingham.
As the social status of the spouses was considered too unequal (Willem being the social inferior) Bentinck bought his elevation to the rank of Imperial Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1732 from the German emperor.
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738–1809), British Whig and Tory statesman and Prime Minister
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William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland (1893–1977), 2nd Chancellor of the University of Nottingham
James Lees-Milne: The Bachelor Duke: Life of William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, 1790-1858 (1991).
Lord William Bentinck (1774–1839), British statesman and governor of India
Caroline Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck (née Caroline Louisa Burnaby) (c. 1831 – 6 July 1918) was the maternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, great-grandmother of Elizabeth II, great-great-grandmother of Charles, Prince of Wales, and great-great-great-grandmother of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and his brother Prince Harry, as well as being an ancestress of other members of the British Royal Family, descended from the Queen Mother.