Cavendish may refer to:

People

* The House of Cavendish, a British aristocratic family *

Margaret Cavendish Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 15 December 1673) was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and playwright. Her husband, William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was Cavalier, R ...

(1623–1673), British poet, philosopher, and scientist * Cavendish (author) (1831–1899), pen name of Henry Jones, English author on card games and tennis * Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), British natural philosopher and scientist * Mark Cavendish (born 1985), Manx professional road and track cyclist * Diana Cavendish from

Little Witch Academia is a Japanese anime franchise created by Yoh Yoshinari and produced by Trigger. The original short film, directed by Yoshinari and written by Masahiko Otsuka, was released in theaters in March 2013 as part of the Young Animator Train ...

* Thomas Cavendish (1560-1592), English sailor who

circumnavigated Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon). This article focuses on the circumnavigation of Earth. The first recorded circumnavigation of the Earth was the Magel ...

(1586-1588).

Places

Australia

* County of Cavendish, Queensland * Cavendish Road, Brisbane, Queensland *

Cavendish, Victoria Cavendish 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. The township was settled in the earl ...

Bermuda

* Cavendish Tribe, original name of

Devonshire Parish Devonshire Parish is one of the nine parishes of Bermuda. Originally named ''Cavendish Tribe'' and later Devonshire Tribe, for William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire (1552–1626). ''Devonshire Redoubt'', on Castle Island, one of the Castle Har ...

, Bermuda

Canada

Cavendish, Alberta Cavendish is a locality in Alberta, Canada. The locality has the name of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (31 May 18686 May 1938), known as Victor Cavendish until 1908, was a ...

Cavendish, Newfoundland and Labrador Cavendish is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Geography Cavendish is in Newfoundland within Subdivision E of Division No. 1. Cavendish is located on Route 80, off the Rou ...

* Cavendish, a former township, subsequently merged and renamed to form Trent Lakes, Ontario * Cavendish, Prince Edward Island *

Cavendish Beach Cavendish Beach is a beach in the community of Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Fronting the Gulf of St. Lawrence The Gulf of St. Lawrence () is the outlet of the North American Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence River into the Atlantic ...

, Prince Edward Island

England

Cavendish, Suffolk Cavendish is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the River Stour, Suffolk, Stour Valley in Suffolk, England. History It is believed that Cavendish is called so because a man called Cafa once owned an ''eddish'' (pasture ...

Cavendish Square Cavendish Square is a public garden square in Marylebone in the West End of London. It has a double-helix underground commercial car park. Its northern road forms ends of four streets: of Wigmore Street that runs to Portman Square in the much lar ...

, London *

Cavendish Bridge Cavendish Bridge is a bridge over the River Trent, connecting the counties of Leicestershire and Derbyshire; it is also the name of a hamlet on the Leicestershire side of the river within the Castle Donington parish. This bridge once carried th ...

* Cavendish Golf Club, Buxton

New Zealand

Mount Cavendish Mount Cavendish is located in the Port Hills, with views over Christchurch, New Zealand and Lyttelton. It is part of the crater wall of the extinct volcano that formed Lyttelton Harbour. The Mount Cavendish Reserve displays some of the best exam ...

, Christchurch

United States

Cavendish, Idaho Cavendish 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 (Cavendish-Teakean Elementary School), a cemetery, and a pa ...

* Cavendish, Vermont, a town **

Cavendish (CDP), Vermont Cavendish is a census-designated place, the central village of the town of Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. Until the midnineteenth century it was known as Duttonsville. As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 179, ...

, the central village of the town *

Fort Cavendish Fort de Chartres was a French fortification first built in 1720 on the east bank of the Mississippi River in present-day Illinois. It was used as the administrative center for the province, which was part of New France. Due generally to river floo ...

, Illinois, British name for the captured French Fort de Chartres

Other places

Cavendish (crater) Cavendish is a lunar impact 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. The ri ...

, a crater on the moon

Academic facilities

Cavendish Laboratory The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences. The laboratory was opened in 1874 on the New Museums Site as a laboratory for experimental physics and is named ...

at the University of Cambridge *

Cavendish School (disambiguation) Cavendish School may refer to: * Cavendish School (Eastbourne) * Cavendish School (Hemel Hempstead) {{schooldis ...

, various schools * Cavendish Hall, one of the

University of Nottingham Halls of Residence This 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. The halls acts a microco ...

* Cavendish University Zambia, a private university in Lusaka, Zambia

Other uses

Cavendish banana Cavendish bananas are the fruits of one of a number of banana cultivars belonging to the Cavendish subgroup of the AAA banana cultivar group. The same term is also used to describe the plants on which the bananas grow. They include commercially ...

, the dominant commercial variety of banana *

Cavendish tobacco Cavendish Tobacco refers to tobacco that has been heat treated with fire or steam and then subjected to heavy pressure in order to produce a sweet taste with a moist texture. American, Dutch, and Danish varieties involve the addition of flavorings; ...

, a process of cutting and curing tobacco * Cavendish Invitational, high-stakes bridge tournament currently held in Monaco * Cavendish experiment weighing the Earth *

Cavendish Motor Services Cavendish 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. The buses ran in a distinctive green and cream ...

, 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 Born'' * ''Cavendish'' (TV series), a 2019 CBC sitcom set in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada * Cavendish Agri Services, Cavendish Farms, or Cavendish Produce, subsidiaries of Canadian conglomerate

J. D. Irving J.D. Irving Limited (JDI) is a privately owned conglomerate company headquartered in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. It is a subsidiary of the parent company, Irving Group of Companies, along with Irving Oil Refinery, Canaport, Irving T ...