the sixth duke. William Spencer Cavendish had been a member of the Whig party in the early 19th century: a liberal reformer and anti-slavery campaigner who, though a grandee to his fingertips ...

The matter was most awfully urgent. The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire dashed up to London to see her son, Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, and his stately wife ...

In 1765, her father became Earl Spencer, and she Lady Georgiana Spencer. Marriage to William Cavendish, the Duke of Devonshire On her 17th birthday, Lady Georgiana Spencer married one of society’s ...