Cavendish
Encyclopedia
People
- The House of CavendishHouse of CavendishCavendish is the surname of a British noble family, also known as the House of Cavendish, descended from Sir John Cavendish of Cavendish in the county of Suffolk Cavendish is the surname of a British noble family, also known as the House of Cavendish, descended from Sir John Cavendish of Cavendish...
, a British noble family
- Ada CavendishAda CavendishAda Cavendish was an English actress known for her Shakesperean roles and for popularising the plays of Wilkie Collins in America....
(1839–1895), British actress - Camilla CavendishCamilla CavendishCamilla Hilary Cavendish is a British columnist and leader writer for The Times. She graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford in 1989 with a first-class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics . She has worked as a McKinsey management consultant, an aid worker, and CEO of a not-for-profit...
(born 1968), British journalist - Charles CavendishCharles Cavendish, 1st Baron CheshamCharles Compton Cavendish, 1st Baron Chesham was a British Liberal politician.Cavendish was the fourth son of George Augustus Henry Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington, third son of the former Prime Minister William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, and his wife Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle,...
(1793-1863), British Liberal politician - George Cavendish (writer) (c. 1494–1562) English writer and biographer of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
- Henry CavendishHenry CavendishHenry Cavendish FRS was a British scientist noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper "On Factitious Airs". Antoine Lavoisier later reproduced Cavendish's experiment and...
(1731–1810), British physicist, discoverer of hydrogen - Lord Ian Charles Cavendish (born 1973)
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623-1673), English aristocrat, writer, and philosopher
- Mark CavendishMark CavendishMark Cavendish MBE is a Manx professional road racing cyclist who rides for UCI ProTeam until the end of this season when the team is dissolved. He will join Team Sky at the start of the 2012 season...
(born 1985), Manx cyclist - Michael CavendishMichael CavendishMichael Cavendish was an English composer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.A grandson of Bess of Hardwick and first cousin to Arabella Stuart, he spent much time at court and was for a time composer to the future King Charles I of England. In 1598 he published a set of songs with lute...
(born c. 1565), English composer - Michael Robert CavendishMichael Robert CavendishMichael Robert Cavendish is a lawyer and legal writer living in the State of Florida.Cavendish has published works on substantive law, legal history, legal ethics theory, and microjurisprudence, a concept related to the microlaw concept developed by W...
(born c. 1972), legal ethics writer and theorist - Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of DevonshirePeregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of DevonshirePeregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, KCVO, CBE , is a British peer. He is the only surviving son of the 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife, the former Deborah Mitford. He succeeded to the dukedom following the death of his father on 3 May 2004...
(born 1944), British Peer and owner of Pratt's Club - Lord Richard Cavendish (1752–1781), British MP
- Lord Richard Cavendish (1871–1946), British MP, aristocrat, author, magistrate
- Richard Cavendish (occult writer) (born 1930), British writer on topics dealing with the occult
- Sid CavendishSid CavendishSidney William "Sid" Cavendish was an English professional footballer who played at inside-forward for various clubs around the turn of the 20th century.-Football career:...
(1876–1954), English footballer with Southampton and Clapton Orient - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of PortlandWilliam Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of PortlandWilliam Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, KG, PC was a British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Prime Minister. He was known before 1762 by the courtesy title Marquess of Titchfield. He held a title of every degree of British nobility—Duke,...
(1738–1809), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - Thomas CavendishThomas CavendishSir Thomas Cavendish was an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and return by circumnavigating the globe...
(1564–1593), English Admiral - Henry Jones (writer)Henry Jones (writer)Henry Jones was an English author well-known as a writer and authority on tennis and card games who wrote under the nom de plume "Cavendish".-Biography:...
(1831–1899), pen name "Cavendish", English author on card games and tennis
Places
Australia- Cavendish, Queensland
- Cavendish, VictoriaCavendish, VictoriaCavendish is a township in the Shire of Southern Grampians in the Western District of Victoria, Australia on the Wannon River. At the 2006 census, Cavendish and the surrounding area had a population of 454....
Bermuda
- Cavendish, Bermuda
Canada
- Cavendish, Alberta
- Cavendish, Newfoundland
- Cavendish, Ontario
- Cavendish, Prince Edward IslandCavendish, Prince Edward IslandCavendish is a Canadian unincorporated rural area in the township of Lot 23, Queens County, Prince Edward Island. Its primary industries are tourism and agriculture. Cavendish is the largest seasonal resort area on Prince Edward Island...
- Cavendish BeachCavendish BeachCavendish Beach is a Canadian beach in the community of Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.Fronting the Gulf of St. Lawrence, this broad natural sand beach stretches for 8 kilometres from the entrance to New London Bay in the west, to the red sandstone cliffs at Cavendish East in the east...
, Prince Edward Island - Cavendish Bay, Newfoundland
- Cavendish Lake, Ontario
- Lac Cavendish, Quebec
England
- Cavendish, SuffolkCavendish, SuffolkCavendish is a village and civil parish in the Stour Valley in Suffolk, England. It is from Bury St Edmunds and from Newmarket.It is believed that Cavendish is called so because a man called Cafa used to own a pasture or 'edisc' there, and it therefore became known as Cafa's Edisc and eventually...
- Cavendish SquareCavendish SquareCavendish Square is a public square in the West End of London, very close to Oxford Circus, where the two main shopping thoroughfares of Oxford Street and Regent Street meet. It is located at the eastern end of Wigmore Street, which connects it to Portman Square, part of the Portman Estate, to its...
, London - Cavendish BridgeCavendish BridgeCavendish Bridge is the name of a bridge over the River Trent, and a hamlet, on the border between Leicestershire and Derbyshire. It once carried the main London-Manchester turnpike, though a modern dual carriageway has now been built to the south bypassing the location.-History:Before the bridge...
New Zealand
- Mount CavendishMount CavendishMount Cavendish is located in the Port Hills. It affords spectacular views of Christchurch, New Zealand and Lyttelton. It is part of the crater wall of the extinct volcano that formed Lyttelton Harbour, and the peak itself is one of the notable features that give the rugged skyline of the crater...
, Christchurch
United States
- Cavendish, IdahoCavendish, IdahoCavendish is an unincorporated community in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States, in the mountains between the towns of Orofino and Kendrick. Cavendish contains an elementary school , a cemetery, and a park . Cavendish was said to have gotten its name from a traveler who compared the severity...
- Cavendish, Missouri
- Cavendish, VermontCavendish, VermontCavendish is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The town was named after William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire. The population was 1,470 at the 2000 census...
- Fort Cavendish, Illinois
Other
- Cavendish (crater)Cavendish (crater)Cavendish is a lunar crater that is located in the southwest part of the Moon, to the southwest of the larger crater Mersenius. It lies between the smaller craters Henry to the west-northwest and de Gasparis to the east-southeast....
, a crater on the moon
Academic facilities
- Cavendish LaboratoryCavendish LaboratoryThe Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the university's School of Physical Sciences. It was opened in 1874 as a teaching laboratory....
at the University of Cambridge - Cavendish School (disambiguation), various schools
- Cavendish Hall, one of the University of Nottingham Halls of ResidenceUniversity of Nottingham Halls of ResidenceThis is a list of halls of residence on the various campuses of the University of Nottingham in Nottingham, England.The University of Nottingham has a particularly well developed system of halls located on its campus...
Other uses
- Cavendish bananaCavendish bananaThe Dwarf Cavendish banana is a banana cultivar originally from Vietnam and China. It became the primary replacement for the Gros Michel banana in the 1950s after crops of the latter were devastated by the Panama disease. The name 'Dwarf Cavendish' is in reference to the height of the pseudostem,...
, the dominant commercial variety of banana - Cavendish tobaccoCavendish TobaccoCavendish is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type of it. The processing and the cut are used to bring out the natural sweet taste in the tobacco...
, a process of cutting and curing tobacco - Cavendish InvitationalCavendish InvitationalThe Cavendish Invitational is the largest money bridge tournament in the world. The , which concludes the tournament.-History and format:The Cavendish Club, whose name is associated with the event, was founded in 1925 in New York City...
, high stakes bridge tournament in Las Vegas - Cavendish experimentCavendish experimentThe Cavendish experiment, performed in 1797–98 by British scientist Henry Cavendish was the first experiment to measure the force of gravity between masses in the laboratory, and the first to yield accurate values for the gravitational constant. Because of the unit conventions then in use,...
weighing the Earth - Cavendish Motor ServicesCavendish Motor ServicesCavendish Motor Services was a bus operator running within the Borough of Eastbourne and the surrounding area such as Polegate and Hailsham. It was the sister company of Renown Coaches of Bexhill...
, a bus company part-owned by Renown Travel, operating several routes in East Sussex, England - "Cavendish Foods", a fictional supermarket chain appearing on the British sitcom To the Manor BornTo the Manor BornTo the Manor Born is a British sitcom that first aired on BBC1 from 1979 to 1981. A special edition appeared in 2007. Starring Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles, the first 20 episodes and the 2007 special were written by Peter Spence, the creator, while the 1981 finale was written by Christopher...