Paternal Family Tree: Cavendish
Maternal Family Tree: Catherine Hale 1673-1704
On 27th March 1718 [his father] William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 19] and [his mother] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 19] were married. He the son of [his grandfather] William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire [aged 46] and [his grandmother] Rachel Russell Duchess Devonshire [aged 44].
On 8th May 1720 William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire was born to [his father] William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 21] and [his mother] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 21].
On 4th June 1729 [his grandfather] William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire [aged 57] died. His son [his father] William [aged 30] succeeded 3rd Duke Devonshire, 6th Earl Devonshire, 6th Baron Cavendish Hardwick. [his mother] Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 30] by marriage Duchess Devonshire.
Around 1730. Unknown Painter. Portrait of William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire [aged 9].
In 1733 [his father] William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 34] was appointed 550th Knight of the Garter by King George II of Great Britain and Ireland [aged 49].
On 5th July 1739 [his brother-in-law] William Ponsonby 2nd Earl Bessborough [aged 35] and Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough [aged 20] were married. His younger brother John Ponsonby [aged 26] would marry her younger sister Elizabeth Cavendish [aged 13] four years later. She the daughter of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 40] and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 40]. He the son of Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough [aged 60] and Sarah Margetson.
In 1741 William Hogarth [aged 43]. Portrait of William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire [aged 20].
In 1743 John Ponsonby [aged 29] and Elizabeth Cavendish [aged 17] were married. His elder brother William Ponsonby 2nd Earl Bessborough [aged 39] had married her elder sister Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough [aged 23] four years before. She the daughter of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 44] and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 44]. He the son of Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough [aged 64] and Sarah Margetson.
In 1747 Bishop Richard Terrick [aged 37] was elected Bishop of Peterborough through the influence of William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire [aged 26] the Prime Minister.
Before 1748 William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire [aged 27] and Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle Marchioness Hartington [aged 16] were married. She the daughter of Richard Boyle 3rd Earl Burlington [aged 53] and Dorothy Savile Countess Burlington [aged 48]. He the son of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 49] and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 49]. They were fourth cousin once removed.
In 1748 [his son] William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire was born to William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire [aged 27] and [his wife] Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle Marchioness Hartington [aged 16]. He married (1) 7th June 1774 his fourth cousin Georgiana Spencer Duchess Devonshire, daughter of John Spencer 1st Earl Spencer and Margaret Georgiana Poyntz Countess Spencer, and had issue (2) 1809 his sixth cousin Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire, daughter of Frederick Augustus Hervey 4th Earl Bristol and Elizabeth Davers Countess Bristol, and had issue.
On 27th August 1750 [his daughter] Dorothy Cavendish 3rd Duchess Portland was born to William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire [aged 30] and [his wife] Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle Marchioness Hartington [aged 18]. She married 8th November 1766 her half fourth cousin William Cavendish-Bentinck 3rd Duke Portland, son of William Bentinck 2nd Duke Portland and Margaret Cavendish Harley 2nd Duchess Portland, and had issue.
In 1752 [his son] Richard Cavendish was born to William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire [aged 31] and [his wife] Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle Marchioness Hartington [aged 20].
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Abbot John Whethamstede's Register aka Chronicle of his second term at the Abbey of St Albans, 1451-1461, is a remarkable text that describes his first-hand experience of the beginning of the Wars of the Roses including the First and Second Battles of St Albans, 1455 and 1461, respectively, their cause, and their consequences, not least on the Abbey itself. His text also includes Loveday, Blore Heath, Northampton, the Act of Accord, Wakefield, and Towton, and ends with the Coronation of King Edward IV. In addition to the events of the Wars of the Roses, Abbot John, or his scribes who wrote the Chronicle, include details in the life of the Abbey such as charters, letters, land exchanges, visits by legates, and disputes, which provide a rich insight into the day-to-day life of the Abbey, and the challenges faced by its Abbot.
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Letters of Horace Walpole. 23rd June 1752. Arlington Street. To The Hon H S Conway [aged 31].
By a letter that I received from my Lady Ailesbury [aged 31] two days ago, I flatter myself I shall not have occasion to write to you any more; yet I shall certainly see you with less pleasure than ever, as our meeting is to be attended with a resignation of my little charge [aged 3].316 She is vastly well, and I think you will find her grown fat. I am husband enough to mind her beauty no longer, and perhaps you will say husband enough too, in pretending that my love is converted into friendship; but I shall tell you some stories at Park-place of her understanding that will please you, I trust, as much as they have done me.
My Lady Ailesbury says I must send her news, and the whole history of Mr. Seymour [aged 22] and Lady Di. Egerton [aged 21], and their quarrel, and all that is said on both sides. I can easily tell her all that is said on one side, Mr. Seymour's, who says, the only answer he has ever been able to get from the Duchess or Mr. Lyttelton was, that Di. has her caprices. The reasons she gives, and gave him, were, the badness of his temper and imperiousness of his letters; that he scolded her for the overfondness of her epistles, and was even so unsentimental as to talk of desiring to make her happy, instead of being made so by her. He is gone abroad, in despair, and with an additional circumstance, which would be very uncomfortable to any thing but a true lover; his father refuses to resettle the estate on him, the entail of which was cut off by mutual consent, to make way for the settlements on the marriage.
The Speaker told me t'other day, that he had received a letter from Lord Hyde, which confirms what Mr. Churchill writes me, the distress and poverty of France and the greatness of their divisions. Yet the King's expenses are incredible; Madame de Pompadour [aged 30] is continually busied in finding out new journeys and diversions to keep him from falling into the hands of the clergy. The last party of pleasure she made for him, was a stag-hunting; the stag was a man in a skin and horns, worried by twelve men dressed like bloodhounds! I have read of Basilowitz, a Czar of Muscovy, who improved on such a hunt, and had a man in a bearskin worried by real dogs; a more kingly entertainment!
I shall make out a sad Journal of other news; yet I will be like any gazette, and scrape together all the births, deaths, and marriages in the parish. Lady Hartington [aged 32] and [his sister] Lady Rachel Walpole [aged 25] are brought to bed of sons; [his father-in-law] Lord Burlington [aged 58] and Lord Gower [aged 57] have had new attacks of palsies: Lord Falkland [aged 45] is to marry the Southwark Lady Suffolk;317 and Mr. Watson [aged 23], Miss Grace Pelham [aged 17]. Lady Coventry [aged 19] has miscarried of one or two children, and is going on with one or two more, and is gone to France to-day. Lady Townshend [aged 44] and Lady Caroline Petersham [aged 30] have had their anniversary quarrel, and the [his mother] Duchess of Devonshire [aged 53] has had her secular assembly, which she keeps once in fifty years: she was more delightfully vulgar at it than you can imagine; complained of the wet night, and how the men would dirty the rooms with their shoes; called out at supper to the Duke [aged 53], "Good God! my lord, don't cut the ham, nobody will eat any!" and relating her private menage to Mr. Obnir, she said, "When there's only my lord and I, besides a pudding we have always a dish of Yeast!" I am ashamed to send you such nonsense, or to tell you how the good women at Hampton Court are scandalized at Princess Emily's [aged 41] coming to chapel last Sunday in riding-clothes with a dog under her arm; but I am bid to send news: what can we do -,it such a dead time of year? I must conclude, as my Lady Gower did very well t'other day in a letter into the country, "Since the two Misses318 were hanged, and the two Misses319 were married, there is nothing at all talked of." Adieu! My best compliments and my wife's to your two ladies.
Note 315. Now first published.
Note 316. Their daughter, Ann Seymour Conway.
Note 317. Sarah, Duchess-dowager of Suffolk, daughter of Thomas Unwen, Esq. of Southwark.-E.
Note 318. Miss Blandy and Miss Jefferies.
Note 319. The Gunnings. [Maria Gunning Countess Coventry and Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll [aged 18]]
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On 4th December 1753 [his father-in-law] Richard Boyle 3rd Earl Burlington [aged 59] died. Earl Burlington, Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky extinct. His daughter [his wife] Charlotte [aged 22] succeeded 6th Baroness Clifford.
On 31st March 1754 [his son] George Augustus Henry Cavendish 1st Earl Burlington was born to William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire [aged 33] and [his wife] Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle Marchioness Hartington [aged 22]. He married 27th February 1782 his fourth cousin Elizabeth Compton Countess Burlington, daughter of Charles Compton 7th Earl of Northampton and Anne Somerset Countess Northampton, and had issue.
On 8th December 1754 [his wife] Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle Marchioness Hartington [aged 23] died. Her son William [aged 6] succeeded 7th Baron Clifford.
On 5th December 1755 [his father] William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 57] died. His son William [aged 35] succeeded 4th Duke Devonshire, 7th Earl Devonshire, 7th Baron Cavendish Hardwick.
In 1756 King George II of Great Britain and Ireland [aged 72] created new Garter Knights as follows:
572nd William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire [aged 35],
573rd Henry Howard 4th Earl Carlisle [aged 61],
574th Hugh Percy 1st Duke Northumberland [aged 40],
575th Francis Seymour-Conway 1st Marquess Hertford [aged 37].
On 4th July 1758 Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough [aged 79] died. His son [his brother-in-law] William [aged 54] succeeded 2nd Earl Bessborough, 3rd Viscount Duncannon of Duncannon in Wexford, 3rd Baron Bessborough of Bessborough in Kilkenny. [his sister] Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough [aged 39] by marriage Countess Bessborough.
On 20th January 1760 [his sister] Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough [aged 40] died. Monument in Derby Cathedral [Map] sculpted by John Michael Rysbrack [aged 65].
Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough: In May 1719 she was born to William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire. On 5th July 1739 William Ponsonby 2nd Earl Bessborough and she were married. His younger brother John Ponsonby would marry her younger sister Elizabeth Cavendish four years later. She the daughter of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire. He the son of Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough and Sarah Margetson. In 1743 John Ponsonby and Elizabeth Cavendish were married. His elder brother William Ponsonby 2nd Earl Bessborough had married her elder sister Caroline Cavendish Countess Bessborough four years before. She the daughter of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire. He the son of Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough and Sarah Margetson. On 4th July 1758 Brabazon Ponsonby 1st Earl Bessborough died. His son William succeeded 2nd Earl Bessborough, 3rd Viscount Duncannon of Duncannon in Wexford, 3rd Baron Bessborough of Bessborough in Kilkenny. She by marriage Countess Bessborough.
Before 1764 Thomas Hudson [aged 62] (After). Portrait of William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire [aged 43].
On 2nd October 1764 William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire [aged 44] died. His son William [aged 16] succeeded 5th Duke Devonshire, 8th Earl Devonshire, 8th Baron Cavendish Hardwick.
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Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cavendish 1st Earl Devonshire 
8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cavendish 2nd Earl Devonshire 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Keighley
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Cavendish 3rd Earl Devonshire 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Bruce 1st Lord Kinloss
Great x 3 Grandmother: Christian Bruce Countess Devonshire
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Cavendish 1st Duke Devonshire 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Cecil 1st Earl Salisbury 
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Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cecil 2nd Earl Salisbury 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Brooke 
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Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cecil Countess Devonshire 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk 
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Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Howard Countess Salisbury 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk 
9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
GrandFather: William Cavendish 2nd Duke Devonshire 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Butler 11th Earl Ormonde 4th Earl Ossory 
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Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Butler Viscount Thurles 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Helen Butler Countess Ormonde and Ossory 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Butler 1st Duke Ormonde 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Poyntz 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Poyntz 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sydenham 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Butler Duchess Devonshire 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Preston of Whitehill in Midlothian 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Preston 1st Earl Desmond
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Preston Duchess Ormonde 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Butler 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sheffield Countess Ormonde and Ossory 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Father: William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Russell 1st Baron Russell 
9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Russell 4th Earl Bedford 10 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Long Baroness Russel Thornhaugh
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Russell 1st Duke Bedford 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Giles Brydges 3rd Baron Chandos 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Brydges Countess Bedford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Clinton 
9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Russell 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst 12 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Carr 1st Earl Somerset 
13 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Carr Countess of Bedford 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Howard Countess Essex and Somerset 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
GrandMother: Rachel Russell Duchess Devonshire 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Wriothesley 2nd Earl of Southampton 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Browne Countess Southampton 
6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Wriothesley 4th Earl of Southampton 2nd Earl Chichester 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Vernon 
5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Vernon Countess Southampton 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Devereux 
6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Rachel Wriothesley 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Daniel de Massue Seigneur de Rouvigny
Great x 2 Grandmother: Rachel Massue Countess Southampton
William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Hoskins
GrandFather: John Hoskins of Oxted
Mother: Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Hale
GrandMother: Catherine Hale