East window in St Peter's Church, Edensor

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Lord Edward Cavendish MP (28 January 1838 – 18 May 1891) was a 19th-century British politician, soldier, and nobleman. Born in

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, Cavendish was the third son of

William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, (27 April 1808 – 21 December 1891), styled as Lord Cavendish of Keighley between 1831 and 1834 and known as Earl of Burlington between 1834 and 1858, was a British landowner, benefactor, nobleman, ...

,''The Annual register of world events: a review of the year'', Vol.133, ed.Edmund Burke, (Longmans, Green and Co., 1892), 160. by his wife,

Lady Blanche Howard Blanche Cavendish, Countess of Burlington (''née'' Howard; 11 January 1812 – 27 April 1840), was the wife of William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Burlington, who would later become the 7th Duke of Devonshire. Early life and family Born on 11 Janua ...

(a daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle and a niece of the

6th Duke of Devonshire William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, (21 May 1790 K. D. Reynolds, ‘Cavendish, William George Spencer, sixth duke of Devonshire (1790–1858)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; ...

). His father and his two surviving brothers were all

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(MPs): his eldest brother Spencer, MP for

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1857–91 and later 8th Duke of Devonshire, led the

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and was asked three times to be Prime Minister by

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; the middle brother,

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was MP for the

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and Chief Secretary for Ireland and was assassinated in 1882. Cavendish was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade. On retirement from the regular army he joined the 2nd Derbyshire Militia (later the

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), but transferred to the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in 1888. Cavendish served as MP for West Derbyshire from the creation of the constituency until his death. Like his eldest brother, he became a

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in reaction to the Liberal Party's policy on Irish Home Rule. Upon his death in Marylebone aged 53, his son, Victor, was elected unopposed to replace him, later becoming the 9th Duke of Devonshire. Cavendish married his cousin Emma Lascelles (d. 1920), a daughter of the Rt. Hon. William Lascelles, on 3 August 1865. They had three sons: * Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (1868–1938) * Lord Richard Frederick Cavendish MP (1871–1946) * Lord John Spencer Cavendish (1875–1914); killed in action in

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* 1838 births 1891 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Liberal Unionist Party MPs for English constituencies Rifle Brigade officers Sherwood Foresters officers King's Own Royal Regiment officers Younger sons of dukes UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 Edward Cavendish, Lord Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Derbyshire {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub