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DEVONSHIRE 341 living") at his house near Bishopsgate Str., London, 20 June, and was bur. II July 1628, aged 38 (with his well-known grandmother, the Countess of Shrewsbury), in All Saints', Derby. M.I. Will pr. 1628. His widow, who was ^.28 Dec. 1595, d. 16 Jan. 1674/5 in Southampton Buildings, St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, aged 79, and was bur. at All Saints' afsd.(^) Willpr. 1675. IV. 1628. 3. William (Cavendish), Earl of Devonshire, &c., 1st s. and h., b. 10 Oct. 161 7; K.B. at the Coronation of Charles I, 2 Feb. 1625/6; styUd Lord Cavendish, i626-28;() Lord Lieut. CO. Derby, 1638-42, and again 1660-84. He opposed the attainder of Lord Strafford, was with the King at York in 1642, but being expelled the House, left England. He returned in 1645, compounding for a fine of ;^5,ooo. He received Charles I for a night, 13 Oct. 1645, at his house at Latimers, Bucks; an original Fellow of the Royal Society, 20 May 1663; a Commissioner of Trade, 1668/9. ^^ '"• G'*^- Bp. of London, 4 Mar. 1638/9) Elizabeth, 2nd da. of William (Cecil), 2nd Earl of Salisbury, by Catherine, da. of Thomas (Howard), ist Earl of Suffolk. He d. 23 Nov. 1684, at Roehampton House, Surrey, and was bur. at Edensor, co. Derby, aged 67. Will pr. 10 Apr. 1685, and 3 July 1708. His widow, who was aged 19 in 1638/9, d. 19, and was bur. 21 Nov. 1689, in "Monmouth's vault," Westm. Abbey. Will pr. 13 Nov. 1690. V. 1684. 4 and I. William (Cavendish), Earl OF Devonshire, DUKEDOM ^^ ^^^ ^" ^"'^ ^■' ^- ^5 J^"- 1 640/1, styled Lord Cavendish till 1684; served with the Duke of York I. 1694. in the defeat of the Dutch off Lowestoft 3 June 1665; was one of the four Pages who bore the King's train at his Coronation, 23 Apr. 1661; M.P. for co. Derby, i66i-8i;("=) an original F.R.S., 20 May 1663; cr. M.A. of Oxford, 28 Sep. 1663; P.C. 22 Apr. 1679 till 31 Jan. i679/8o,() restored 14 Feb. 1688/9; Cupbearer to if) She purchased Roehampton House, in Putney, Surrey, from Sir Thomas Dawes about 1650, where she frequently entertained Charles II and his Court. A portrait of her is in Lysons' Environs of London, vol. i, p. 452 (edit. 1796). C') He travelled for 3 years on the Continent in charge of Thomas Hobbes, the well-known philosopher, who had acted as tutor and later on was secretary to his father. Hobbes dedicated his translation of Thucydides to him. He also may claim the credit (generally given to John Evelyn) of having introduced the cedar of Lebanon into England, for he joined with the 4th Earl of Pembroke and the Bishop of London in sending collectors to the Holy Land, who returned with the seeds. Probably this is the earliest instance of such an enterprise. He was an active supporter of the King, in whose cause his younger brother, Charles Cavendish, was slain at Gainsborough, 28 July 1643. V.G. (■=) He was one of the original leaders of the Whig party and supporters of the Exclusion Bill. V.G. (■*) When he and Lord Russell resigned as a protest against the prorogation of Parliament, they asked the King's permission to retire, to which he replied "With all my heart." V.G.