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class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Lowther,_3rd_Viscount_Lonsdale" title="Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale">The Viscount Lonsdale</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">26 September 1698</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">5 December 1755</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data">British</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Catherine_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Devonshire" title="Catherine Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire">Catherine Hoskins</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">7 (including <a href="/wiki/William_Cavendish,_4th_Duke_of_Devonshire" title="William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire">William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_John_Cavendish" title="Lord John Cavendish">Lord John Cavendish</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lord_Frederick_Cavendish_(British_Army_officer)" title="Lord Frederick Cavendish (British Army officer)">Lord Frederick Cavendish</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/William_Cavendish,_2nd_Duke_of_Devonshire" title="William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire">William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Devonshire" title="Rachel Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire">Rachel Russell</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_William_Cavendish,_3rd_Duke_of_Devonshire,_KG,_PC.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Coat_of_arms_of_William_Cavendish%2C_3rd_Duke_of_Devonshire%2C_KG%2C_PC.png/250px-Coat_of_arms_of_William_Cavendish%2C_3rd_Duke_of_Devonshire%2C_KG%2C_PC.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="250" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Coat_of_arms_of_William_Cavendish%2C_3rd_Duke_of_Devonshire%2C_KG%2C_PC.png/375px-Coat_of_arms_of_William_Cavendish%2C_3rd_Duke_of_Devonshire%2C_KG%2C_PC.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Coat_of_arms_of_William_Cavendish%2C_3rd_Duke_of_Devonshire%2C_KG%2C_PC.png/500px-Coat_of_arms_of_William_Cavendish%2C_3rd_Duke_of_Devonshire%2C_KG%2C_PC.png 2x" data-file-width="1158" data-file-height="1158" /></a><figcaption>Quartered coat of arms of William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, KG, PC</figcaption></figure> <p><b>William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire</b>, <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Order_of_the_Garter" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Order of the Garter">KG</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_(United_Kingdom)" title="Privy Council (United Kingdom)">PC</a></span></span> (26 September 1698 – 5 December 1755) was a British nobleman and <a href="/wiki/British_Whig_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="British Whig Party">Whig</a> politician who sat in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons" title="House of Commons">House of Commons</a> from 1721 to 1729 when he inherited the Dukedom. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Cavendish,_3rd_Duke_of_Devonshire&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cavendish was the son of <a href="/wiki/William_Cavendish,_2nd_Duke_of_Devonshire" title="William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire">William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire</a>, and his wife, the <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Devonshire" title="Rachel Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire">Hon. Rachel Russell</a>, and was known as Marquess of Hartington. </p><p>Like his father, Lord Hartington was active in public life. He was returned unopposed as <a href="/wiki/Member_of_parliament" title="Member of parliament">member of parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Lostwithiel_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lostwithiel (UK Parliament constituency)">Lostwithiel</a> at a by-election in 1721. At the <a href="/wiki/1722_British_general_election" title="1722 British general election">1722 general election</a> he was returned unopposed as MP for <a href="/wiki/Grampound_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Grampound (UK Parliament constituency)">Grampound</a>. He was also unopposed when he was returned as MP for <a href="/wiki/Huntingdonshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Huntingdonshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Huntingdonshire</a> at the <a href="/wiki/1727_British_general_election" title="1727 British general election">1727 general election</a>. He surrendered the seat in 1729 when his father's death sent him to the House of Lords.<sup id="cite_ref-HOP_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HOP-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was made a <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_Great_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Privy Council of Great Britain">Privy Counsellor</a> in 1731. He served as <a href="/wiki/Lord_Privy_Seal" title="Lord Privy Seal">Lord Privy Seal</a> from 1731 to 1733, when he was invested as a <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Garter" title="Order of the Garter">Knight of the Garter</a>. He later served for seven years as <a href="/wiki/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Ireland" title="Lord Lieutenant of Ireland">Lord Lieutenant of Ireland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Politics_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Politics-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He sold the <a href="/wiki/Old_Devonshire_House" title="Old Devonshire House">Old Devonshire House</a> at 48 Boswell Street, Theobald's Road, in <a href="/wiki/Bloomsbury" title="Bloomsbury">Bloomsbury</a>, and in 1734 engaged the architect <a href="/wiki/William_Kent" title="William Kent">William Kent</a> to build a new <a href="/wiki/Cavendish_House" title="Cavendish House">Cavendish House</a> in fashionable <a href="/wiki/Piccadilly" title="Piccadilly">Piccadilly</a>. In 1739, he was enlisted as a founding governor of a new children's charity, the <a href="/wiki/Foundling_Hospital" title="Foundling Hospital">Foundling Hospital</a> in Bloomsbury, London, which aimed to alleviate the problem of infants being abandoned by destitute mothers and which later became a centre for art and music. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Jacobite_rising_of_1745" title="Jacobite rising of 1745">Jacobite rising of 1745</a> the Duke raised a <a href="/wiki/Militia" title="Militia">militia</a> unit in support of the King known as <a href="/wiki/The_Derbyshire_Blues" title="The Derbyshire Blues">the Derbyshire Blues</a>, which mustered at the George Inn, Derby, on 3 December 1745. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marriage_and_issue">Marriage and issue</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Cavendish,_3rd_Duke_of_Devonshire&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Marriage and issue"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 27 March 1718, he married <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Devonshire" title="Catherine Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire">Catherine Hoskins</a> (1700–1777), daughter of John Hoskins of Oxted (1640–1717) and Catherine Hale (1673–1703). </p><p>The Duke and Duchess had seven children: </p> <ul><li>Lady Caroline Cavendish (22 May 1719 – 20 January 1760), who married <a href="/wiki/William_Ponsonby,_2nd_Earl_of_Bessborough" title="William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough">William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough</a>, and had issue.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Cavendish,_4th_Duke_of_Devonshire" title="William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire">William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire</a> (1720 – 2 October 1764)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_George_Augustus_Cavendish" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord George Augustus Cavendish">Lord George Augustus Cavendish</a> (died 2 May 1794), died unmarried.</li> <li>Lady Elizabeth Cavendish (born before 1727 – died 1796), married <a href="/wiki/John_Ponsonby_(politician)" title="John Ponsonby (politician)">John Ponsonby</a> and had issue.</li> <li>Lady Rachel Cavendish (7 June 1727 – 8 May 1805), who married <a href="/wiki/Horatio_Walpole,_1st_Earl_of_Orford" title="Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford">Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Frederick_Cavendish_(British_Army_officer)" title="Lord Frederick Cavendish (British Army officer)">Field Marshal Lord Frederick Cavendish</a> (c. 1729 – 21 October 1803), died unmarried.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_John_Cavendish" title="Lord John Cavendish">Lord John Cavendish</a> (c. 1734–1796)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Cavendish,_3rd_Duke_of_Devonshire&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit 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.reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-HOP-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-HOP_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription 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.cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/cavendish-william-1698-1755">"CAVENDISH, William, Mq. of Hartington (?1698-1755), of Chatsworth, Derbys"</a>. History of Parliament Online<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 August</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=CAVENDISH%2C+William%2C+Mq.+of+Hartington+%28%3F1698-1755%29%2C+of+Chatsworth%2C+Derbys.&rft.pub=History+of+Parliament+Online&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.historyofparliamentonline.org%2Fvolume%2F1715-1754%2Fmember%2Fcavendish-william-1698-1755&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Cavendish%2C+3rd+Duke+of+Devonshire" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Politics-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Politics_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150923202358/http://www.chatsworth.org/attractions-and-events/art-archives/about-chatsworth/history-of-chatsworth/18th-century">"William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire (1698 – 1755)"</a>. Chatsworth House. 27 March 2015. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chatsworth.org/attractions-and-events/art-archives/about-chatsworth/history-of-chatsworth/18th-century">the original</a> on 23 September 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">27 March</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=William+Cavendish%2C+3rd+Duke+of+Devonshire+%281698+%E2%80%93+1755%29&rft.date=2015-03-27&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chatsworth.org%2Fattractions-and-events%2Fart-archives%2Fabout-chatsworth%2Fhistory-of-chatsworth%2F18th-century&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Cavendish%2C+3rd+Duke+of+Devonshire" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Cavendish,_3rd_Duke_of_Devonshire&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thepeerage.com/p956.htm#i9553">thePeerage.com</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #cccccc"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Great_Britain" title="Parliament of Great Britain">Parliament of Great Britain</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Galfridus_Walpole" title="Galfridus Walpole">Galfridus Walpole</a><br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Newsham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Newsham (page does not exist)">John Newsham</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of Parliament for <a href="/wiki/Lostwithiel_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lostwithiel (UK Parliament constituency)">Lostwithiel</a> </b><br />1721–1724 <br />With: <b> <a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Newsham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Newsham (page does not exist)">John Newsham</a> 1721–1722<br /><a href="/wiki/Philip_Stanhope,_4th_Earl_of_Chesterfield" title="Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield">Lord Stanhope</a> 1722–1724 </b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sir_Orlando_Bridgeman,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet">Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Bt</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Henry_Parsons_(English_politician)" title="Henry Parsons (English politician)">Henry Parsons</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/John_West,_1st_Earl_De_La_Warr" title="John West, 1st Earl De La Warr">Hon. John West</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Richard_West_(Lord_Chancellor_of_Ireland)" title="Richard West (Lord Chancellor of Ireland)">Richard West</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of Parliament for <a href="/wiki/Grampound_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Grampound (UK Parliament constituency)">Grampound</a> </b><br /><a href="/wiki/1722_British_general_election" title="1722 British general election">1722</a>–<a href="/wiki/1727_British_general_election" title="1727 British general election">1727</a> <br />With: <b> <a href="/wiki/Humphry_Morice_(the_elder)" class="mw-redirect" title="Humphry Morice (the elder)">Humphry Morice</a> </b> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Humphry_Morice_(the_elder)" class="mw-redirect" title="Humphry Morice (the elder)">Humphry Morice</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Philip_Hawkins_(MP)" title="Philip Hawkins (MP)">Philip 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