In 1757 the Royal Society (of which he was vice-president) awarded him the Copley Medal for his work in the development of thermometers which recorded the maximum and minimum temperatures they had reached.
Lord Charles Cavendish married the Duke's daughter Anne Grey, and Henry Cavendish the natural philosopher was their son, and a pupil at Newcome's School from 1742.
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#Lord Charles Cavendish (17 March 1704 – 28 April 1783) married Anne Grey on 9 January 1727, father of Henry Cavendish