William Cavendish fifth Duke of Devonshire

Standard Name: Devonshire, William Cavendish,,, fifth Duke of

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Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Widowed for the second time by the Duke of Devonshire 's death, Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire , engaged in battles with his family for money, and revealed the paternity of her two children by him.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Bess attached herself sentimentally to both the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire . Georgiana loved her from the first; it is not clear exactly how soon the duke (known in this intimate circle as Canis...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
During her first winter abroad rumours reached England that Bess had taken various lovers.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
125, 132
She left again for the Continent only a few months after her return, apparently because she was pregnant with...
Family and Intimate relationships Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana Spencer married (in the parish church at Wimbledon near London, on her seventeenth birthday) the Duke of Devonshire .
The Complete Peerage gives the date as 5 June. Wimbledon Park (since destroyed) was one...
Family and Intimate relationships Georgiana Fullerton
GF 's mother was born Lady Henrietta Elizabeth (Harriet or Harryo) Cavendish , daughter of the fifth Duke of Devonshire and of the writer and patron Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire . A shrewd and intelligent...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Lady Elizabeth Foster became the friend of the current Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana , and of the Duke ; very soon the three were inseparable.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
97, 103
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Lady Elizabeth Foster (later Duchess of Devonshire) gave birth, in a boarding-house-cum-brothel in Vietri on the Gulf of Salerno, to a daughter by the Duke of Devonshire .
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
171-2
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Lady Elizabeth Foster married her long-time lover, the Duke of Devonshire , three years after the death of his first wife, Georgiana , her intimate friend.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
395
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
Publishing Helen Maria Williams
The Poems were in two volumes, with HMW 's name in full, published by Rivington and Marshall , with an engraved frontispiece drawn by Maria Cosway . Subscribers included the Prince of Wales (whose name...
Publishing Sophia King
SK 's subscribers included J. Fortnum , Esq. (perhaps her father-in-law), and many from the nobility, including the Duchess of Devonshire and her husband , the Duchess of Rutland , and Lord Melbourne (father-in-law of...
Travel Elizabeth Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Lady Elizabeth Foster (later Duchess of Devonshire) went abroad for her health, taking with her as pupil the Duke of Devonshire 's illegitimate daughter Charlotte Williams.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
108-9
Wealth and Poverty Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , made a confession to her husband of debts to the value of almost £62,000; there were significant items missing from the list.
Foreman, Amanda. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. HarperCollins, 1998.
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