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DEVONSHIRE 3+g aged 67, at Hardwicke Hall afsd., and was bur. at Edeiisor, co. Derby. (') On his death the Barony of Clifford (1628) fell ' .o abeyance (see that dignity), but the other titles and the family estates devolved on the Earl of Burlington, as under. DUKEDOM VII. EARLDOM XI. 7 and 10. William (Cavendish), Dure of Devonshire [1694], Marquess of Hartinc- j3 o ton [1694], Earl of Devonshire [16 18], Earl -• ■ OF Burlington [1831], Baron Cavendish of Hardwick. [1605], and Baron Cavendish of Keighley [1831], cousin and h. male, being ist s. and h. of Col. William Cavendish, by Louisa, 1st da. of Cornelius (O'Callaghan), ist Baron Lismore of Shan- bally [I.], which William was s. and h. ap. of George Augustus Henry (Cavendish), ist Earl of Burlington and Baron Cavendish of Keigh- ley, 3rd s. of William, 4th Duke of Devonshire, but d. v.p., 14 Jan. 18 12, aged 29, some 19 years before his father was cr. a Peer. He was b. 27 Apr. I 808, in Charles Str., Berkeley Sq., Midx.; ed. at Eton am? 1819-24, and at Trin. Coll. Cambridge; 2nd Wrangler and ist Smith's Prizeman (also 8th Classic), B.A. and M.A. 1829, LL.D. 6 July 1835; F.R.S. 10 Dec. 1829; M.P. (Liberal) for the Univ. of Cambridge, 1829-31 ;() for Malton, July to Sep. 1 831; for co. Derby, 1831-32; for North Derbyshire, 1832-34; styled Lord Cavendish 1831-34; sue. his grandfather, 4 May 1834, as Earl OF Burlington and Baron Cavendish of Keighley, co. York. Chan- cellor of the Univ. of London, 1836-56; Pres. of the Brit. Assoc. 1837; Lord Lieut, of co. Lancaster, 1857-58; Lord Lieut, of co. Derby, 1858-91. K.G. 25 Mar. 1858; High Steward of Cambridge (town), i860; Chancellor of the Univ. of Cambridge, 1861-91 ; first Pres. of Iron and Steel Institute, 1868; Pres. of the Royal Agric. Soc, 1870; Trustee of the Brit. Museum, 1871-85; P.C. 26 Mar. 1878. Chanc. of Victoria Univ., 1880-91. He (^) In 1828 he is mentioned as being good-looking, but unfortunately very deaf. He is perhaps best known as having employed, as manager of his estates, Mr., after- wards Sir Joseph, Paxton, who erected a conservatory at Chatsworth, covering an acre of ground, and whose system of laying out flower-beds in formal strips and brilliant patterns (known as " carpet-bedding ") was adopted for nearly half a century, to the detriment of the old-fashioned English garden. He had some literary tastes, and some interest in books, being an original member of the Roxburghe Club (18 12). His knowledge of the value of coins and medals was, apparently, not very great, if judged by the sale (1844) of his extensive collection thereof (said to have cost him above £^0,00d) for some £'j,ooo. " [The Duke was] the model of the old English noble of his time. Very tall, very benignant, full of poetic spirit, delighting in doing good, full of schemes for the improvement of the people on his immense property, and generous almost to a fault; and to his own kith and kin, however remote, he was an earthly providence." (9th Duke of Argyll's Passages from the Past). He took but little part in politics. G.E.C. and V.G. (*>) He separated from Gladstone on the Home Rule question in 1886 and re- mained a Unionist. V.G.