Lord George Cavendish (died 1794)
Lord George Augustus Cavendish MP PC (c. 1727 – 2 May 1794) was a British politician and member of the Cavendish family.
Cavendish was born in London, the second son of William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire. King George II was his godfather.[2] He was educated in Chesterfield and at St John's College, Cambridge.[3]
In 1753, he inherited Holker Hall (then in Lancashire) from his maternal cousin Sir William Lowther, 3rd Baronet.[4] He replanted the park there, and added a number of unusual trees, including Lebanese cedar trees sent to him as seeds from a friend in Lebanon.[5]
He entered Parliament in 1751 for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, and in 1754, took up the family seat of Derbyshire, which he occupied, with one interruption, until his death forty years later. He served as Comptroller of the Household from 1761–62, and was named to the Privy Council in 1762. He served was Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire from 1766-82.[6]
Cavendish died suddenly in May 1794 while returning to London from Holker Hall.[7]
References
- ↑ Lord G. A. Cavendish, BBC, accessed July 2011
- ↑ Grove, Joseph (1764). The Lives of All the Earls and Dukes of Devonshire: Descended from the Renowned Sir William Cavendish.
- ↑ "Cavendish, Lord George Augustus (CVNS746LG)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ Pink, William Duncombe (1889). "The Parliamentary Representation of Lancashire". H. Gray. p. 124.
- ↑ Stockdale, James (1872). Annales Caermoelenses: or Annals of Cartmel. p. 416. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ↑ "CAVENDISH, Lord George Augustus (?1727-94).". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ↑ "Reports". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 6 May 1794. p. 2.