Charles Cavendish (Nottingham MP)
Sir Charles Cavendish PC | |
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MP for Nottingham | |
In office 1640–Suspended | |
MP for Nottingham | |
In office 1628–1629 | |
MP for Nottingham | |
In office 1623–1625 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1591 Lieutenant General |
Battles/wars | First English Civil War 1642–1646 Adwalton Moor Second Hull Marston Moor |
Sir Charles Cavendish (13 Aug 1591 – 4 Feb 1653)
Described as 'a little, weak, crooked man’ by
During the
At the request of his brother, he returned to England in 1651, and managed to purchase Bolsover Castle and Welbeck Abbey, which had been confiscated by Parliament. He died at Bolsover in February 1654.
Life
He was the younger brother of
He was knighted, at Welbeck on 10 August 1619, during a visit of the king to his brother. On 23 January 1623–4, he was returned to parliament for the borough of Nottingham.[5] He was also returned for the same place to the third parliament of Charles I on 18 February 1627–8, and to the Short parliament on 30 March 1640.
On the outbreak of the civil war, Cavendish, with his brother Newcastle, entered the king's service, serving under his brother as lieutenant-general of the horse. He behaved with great gallantry in several actions, particularly distinguishing himself at the Battle of Marston Moor. He went into exile with his brother after the battle.[6]
His group of intellectual acquaintances has been called the
Cavendish knew Pell from the Welbeck period, along with the mathematicians
As a royalist, Cavendish's estates were sequestered in 1649, preventing him settling land on his creditors as repayment, including Charles Moseley and the upholsterer Ralph Grynder.[10]
Cavendish was disinclined to make any concession by returning to England, but as the revenue from his estates was serviceable to his family, his brother Newcastle induced Clarendon to persuade him to make his submission. He accordingly repaired to England in the beginning of November with Lady Newcastle. They stayed in Southwark and afterwards in lodgings at Covent Garden, in great poverty. He was finally admitted to compound, and succeeded in purchasing Welbeck and Bolsover which had been confiscated from his brother. The proceedings in regard to his estates were not completed at the time of his death.
He was buried at Bolsover in the family vault on 4 Feb. 1653–4.[6]
Notes
- ^ Derbyshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
- ^ "Genuki: SLINGSBY: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1868., Yorkshire (North Riding)".
- ^ "Slingsby -Tourist Information on the towns and villages in North York Moors - Tourist Net UK guide". Archived from the original on 8 January 2009. Retrieved 9 January 2009.
- ^ "The eternal ruin (From Gazette & Herald)". archive.thisisryedale.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
- ^ Noel Malcolm (editor), The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes: Volume II: 1660-1679 (1994), pp. 801-806.
- ^ a b
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Carlyle, Edward Irving (1901). "Cavendish, Charles (1591-1654)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Margaret J. Osler, Rethinking the Scientific Revolution (2000), p. 97.
- ^ "Dictionary of the History of Ideas :: :: University of Virginia Library".
- ^ Andrew Pyle (editor), Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century British Philosophers (2000), article Cavendish, Charles, pp. 165-6.
- ^ Mary Anne Everett Green, Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding, Cases 1647–1650 (London, 1891), p. 2023.
Further reading
- Noel Malcolm and Jacqueline Stedall (2005), John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician