3rd Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire
(see
here),
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 1737-45, had issue:
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, born 1720,
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 1755-6,
Prime Minister 1756-7,
mar Charlotte Boyle
[descendant of Henry VII]
and had issue:
- William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire,
mar Georgina Spencer
[see biography,
descendant of Edward III]
and had issue:
- Georgina Cavendish, had issue:
- Blanche Howard,
mar William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire
and had issue.
- George Cavendish, had issue:
- William Cavendish, had issue:
- William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire,
founded Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, 1871,
named in honour of his relation the physicist Cavendish,
mar Blanche Howard
and had issue:
-
Lord Frederick Cavendish
(see here),
born 1836,
Chief Secretary for Ireland 1882,
murdered in Phoenix Park, Dublin, 1882.
- Dorothy Cavendish,
ancestor of Elizabeth II.
- Cavendish Row, Dublin (top of O'Connell St at Parnell Square)
is after the 3rd Duke.
- The old Cavendish Laboratory was in the early 20th cent.
the scene of the discovery of the structure of the atom,
and then in mid-20th cent. the scene of the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Cambridge's Physics department
has since moved to a new Cavendish Laboratory
in West Cambridge.