Duchess of Devonshire
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Some women to have held the title Duchess of Devonshire, as wives of the Duke of Devonshire
, include:
Duke of Devonshire
Duke of Devonshire is a title in the peerage of England held by members of the Cavendish family. This branch of the Cavendish family has been one of the richest and most influential aristocratic families in England since the 16th century, and have been rivalled in political influence perhaps only...
, include:
- Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of DevonshireGeorgiana Cavendish, Duchess of DevonshireGeorgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire , formerly Lady Georgiana Spencer, was the first wife of the 5th Duke of Devonshire, and mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire. Her father, the 1st Earl Spencer, was a great-grandson of the 1st Duke of Marlborough. Her niece was Lady Caroline Lamb...
(1757 – 1806), first wife of the fifth duke - Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of DevonshireElizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of DevonshireElizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire , , is best known as an early woman novelist, and as the close friend of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire...
(1759 - 1824), second wife of the fifth duke - Lady Blanche Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1812 - 1840), wife of the seventh duke
- Louisa Cavendish, Duchess of DevonshireLouisa Cavendish, Duchess of DevonshireLouisa Frederica Augusta Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, formerly Louisa Montagu, Duchess of Manchester, née Luise Fredericke Auguste Gräfin von Alten , daughter of Karl Franz Viktor, Graf von Alten and his wife, Hermine de Schminke .On 22 July 1852 she was married at Hannover to...
(1832 - 1911), wife of the eighth duke - Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of DevonshireEvelyn Cavendish, Duchess of DevonshireEvelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire was born Lady Evelyn Emily Mary FitzMaurice, the daughter of the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne and his wife, Maud....
(1870 - 1960), wife of the ninth duke - Mary Cavendish, Duchess of DevonshireMary Cavendish, Duchess of DevonshireMary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, GCVO, CBE was born Lady Mary Alice Gascoyne-Cecil, daughter of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury...
(1895 - 1988), wife of the tenth duke - Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of DevonshireDeborah Cavendish, Duchess of DevonshireDeborah Vivien Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire DCVO , née The Hon. Deborah Freeman-Mitford is the youngest and last surviving of the six noted Mitford sisters whose political affiliations and marriages were a prominent feature of English culture in the 1930s and 1940s...
(born 1920), widow of the eleventh duke