Hugh Cavendish, Baron Cavendish of Furness

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Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
6 June 1990 – 1 January 2021
Personal details
Born
Richard Hugh Cavendish

(1941-11-02) 2 November 1941 (age 82)
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
SpouseGrania Caulfeild
RelationsCavendish family
Children1 son, 2 daughters
Residence(s)Holker Hall, Cumbria
Alma materEton College

Richard Hugh Cavendish, Baron Cavendish of Furness

landowner
.

Lord Cavendish owns

Lord Richard Cavendish CB
.

Early life

Richard Hugh Cavendish was born as the second child and first son of Hon. Richard Edward Osborne Cavendish (1917–1972) and his wife, Pamela Thomas (b. 1918), daughter of Hugh Lloyd Thomas (1888–1938) and Hon. Gwendoline Ada Bellew (1891–1976), a great-granddaughter of Patrick Bellew, 1st Baron Bellew.[citation needed]

Biography

Educated at Eton College, he was created a life peer as Baron Cavendish of Furness, of Cartmel in the County of Cumbria,[1] on the advice of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on 17 May 1990 and served as a lord-in-waiting (1990–92).[2] He and his son, Hon. Freddy Cavendish, are in remainder to the dukedom of Devonshire.

Cavendish is the

member of the Cumbria County Council (1985–1990). He became president of the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain in 2008. He is chairman of the Burlington Stone Company.[4]

Cavendish is the president of South Cumbria Rivers Trust.[5]

Marriage

In 1970 Cavendish married Grania Mary Caulfeild (b. 1947), granddaughter of Sir William Lindsay Murphy, who served as British Governor of the Bahamas.[citation needed] They have one son, the Hon. Frederick Cavendish and two daughters, the Hon. Lucy Cavendish and the Hon. Emily Cavendish.[6] They have four grandchildren.[citation needed]

Arms

Coat of arms of Hugh Cavendish, Baron Cavendish of Furness
Crest
A serpent nowed Proper
Escutcheon
Sable, three bucks' heads cabossed argent
Motto
Cavendo tutus[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "No. 52146". The London Gazette. 22 May 1990. p. 9485.
  2. ^ www.parliament.uk
  3. ^ www.holker.co.uk
  4. ^ www.burlingtonstone.co.uk
  5. ^ "Lord Cavendish".
  6. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 2003, vol. 1, p. 728
  7. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2000.

External links

Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by
The Lord Stevens of Ludgate
 Gentlemen
Baron Cavendish of Furness 		Followed by
The Lord Pearson of Rannoch
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