Nicholas Charles Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham (7 November 1941–27 August 2009), was a British

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politician. A member of the

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headed by the Duke of Devonshire, Chesham was the son of John Cavendish, 5th Baron Chesham and Mary Edmunds Marshall. He took his seat in the

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on his father's death in 1989, and served as

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(Deputy Chief Government Whip in the

) from 1995 to 1997 in the

administration of John Major. However, he lost his seat in the

after the passing of the

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, which removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the upper chamber of Parliament. He married first on 4 November 1965 to Susan Donne Beauchamp. They divorced in 1969. Nicholas then married Suzanne Adrienne Byrne, in 1973. He died on 27 August 2009., Retrieved 1 September 2009 They had two sons: *

Charles Cavendish, 7th Baron Chesham Charles Gray Compton Cavendish, 7th Baron Chesham (born 11 November 1974 in Sydney, Australia), is the present Baron Chesham having succeeded to the title on 27 August 2009 on the death of his father, Nicholas Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham. A mem ...

, b. 11 November 1974 who succeeded his father to become the seventh Baron Chesham. *The Hon. William George Gray Compton, b. 13 April 1980

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Nicholas Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham Nicholas Charles Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham (7 November 1941–27 August 2009), was a British Conservative politician. A member of the Cavendish family headed by the Duke of Devonshire, Chesham was the son of John Cavendish, 5th Baron Chesha ...

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Chesham Chesham (, , or ) is a market town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, south-east of the county town of Aylesbury, north-west of central London, and part of the London commuter belt. It is in the Chess Valley, surrounded by farmla ...