The Lord Cavendish of Furness
Official portrait, 2018
Lord-in-waiting
Government Whip
In office
14 September 1990  22 April 1993
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
John Major
Preceded byThe Baroness Blatch
Succeeded byThe Viscount Astor
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
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 FRSA DL (born 2 November 1941), is a British Conservative politician and landowner.

Lord Cavendish owns Holker Hall and its 17,000 acre estate overlooking Morecambe Bay in Cumbria. The property became part of this branch of the Cavendish family's inheritance via his grandfather, 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.

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 chairman of the Holker Estate Group[3] and has chaired the Morecambe and Lonsdale Conservative Association (1975–78) and the board of governors of St Anne's School, Windermere (1983–89). He is a director of Nirex Ltd (since 1993) and served as High Sheriff of Cumbria (1978–79) and a 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. 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.

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.
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