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Cavendish, William (1617 - 1684)

Born / Died

Birth Date: 1617-10-10
Death Date: 1684-11-23

Notes

Imprisoned in the Tower 20 July 1642; acquitted 10 Dec. 1645

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Type: marriage
    Union began: 1638-3-4
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: Marriage license date

Siblings

Female

  • Cavendish, Anne ( - )

Male

  • Cavendish, Charles (1620 - 1643)
  • Cavendish, Henry ( - )

Primary Title

  • Baron Cavendish of Hardwick

Titles

  • Baron Cavendish of Hardwick
    Assumed: 1626
    Vacated: 1684-11-23
  • 4th Earl of Devonshire
    Assumed: 1628-16-20
    Vacated: 1684-11-23

Details of Offices

Began Notes
Lord Lieut, Derbyshire 1638 -12 -19
High Steward, Bedfordshire 1639/40 -2 -4 (possibly held office from 24 Feb. 1639/40) Held jointly
Commissioner of Array, Leicestershire 1641/2 Held jointly
Comissioner of Custos Rotularum, Derbyshire 1660
Lord Lieut, Derbyshire 1660 -7
Steward, Staffordshire 1660 -8 -8
Steward, Derbyshire 1660 (possibly held office from 1661)

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Latimer, Buckinghamshire
  • Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
  • Roehampton, Surrey

Lands

  • Buckinghamshire
  • Derbyshire: Baslow, Chatsworth & Youlgreave
  • Essex
  • Huntingdonshire: Beames, Moygnes, St Ives, Sawtry
  • Nottinghamshire: Mansfield, Normanton & Sutton
  • Somerset: Glastonbury
  • Staffordshire: Wetton
  • Suffolk
  • Yorkshire: North Riding: Marton le Moor & Sheriff Hutton

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry, Coventry (city-county) in Warwickshire Lord Cavendish's Waits

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lord Cavendish's Waits Cavendish, William (1617 - 1684) Musicians 1

Bibliographic Sources

  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.