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OF all the many members of the Cavendish family who have made the name famous, none will probably be remembered longer than the distinguished eighteenth-century natural philosopher, the Honourable Henry Cavendish, the bicentenary of whose birth falls on Oct. 10. The founder of the fortunes of the family was the fourteenth-century judge, Sir John Cavendish, who was murdered in Jack Straw's rising in 1381, but from whose descendants came both the first dukes of Newcastle and the earls and dukes of Devon-shire. William Cavendish, the fourth Earl of Devonshire, the statesman of the reigns of Charles, James, and William and Mary, became the first Duke of Devonshire, and it was from him Henry Cavendish traced his descent, being the son of Lord Charles Cavendish, son of the second duke.
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Henry Cavendish, 1731–1810. Nature 128, 608–609 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128608a0
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