CAVENDISH OF FURNESS
THE BARON CAVENDISH OF
FURNESS ,
of Cartmel, Co Cumbria ((Richard) Hugh Cavendish, DL Cumbria 1988)) [The Rt Hon
The Lord Cavendish of Furness DL, Holker Hall, Cark-in-Cartmel, Cumbria LA11
7PL]; born 2 Nov 1941; educated Eton; Titular Abbot Furness;
internat banker 1961–71, chm: Holker Estate Gp 1971–, Morecambe and Lonsdale C
Assoc 1975–78; High Sheriff Cumbria 1978, Govr: St Anne's Sch Windermere
1983–89, Lancs and Cumbria Fndn for Med Res 1994–;memb: Cumbria CC 1985–90,
Commn on Historic Buildings and Monuments (English Heritage) 1992–98; Lord in
Waiting 1990–92; dir UK Nirex Ltd 1993–; FRSA 1988, Liveryman Fishmongers Co;
married 1970 •Grania Mary, daughter of Brig Toby St George Caulfeild, CBE
(see BP&B 2003 CHARLEMONT, V), and has:
1a •Frederick Richard
Toby; born 1972
1a •Lucy Georgiana;
born 1973
2a •Emily Moyra; born
1980
Lineage:
see BLGRY 2005 DEVONSHIRE, D
Seat: Holker Hall,
Cark-in-Cartmel,
Cumbria. The
estate of which Holker is the hub comprises monastic lands which originally
belonged to Cartmel Priory and Furness Abbey. After the suppression of these two
religious houses in the 1530s (along with all the rest in England) their
lands were granted to the PRESTONs of Lancashire, from an earlier branch of
which the Viscounts Gormanston (see BP&B 2003) may descend.
Catherine, daughter and heiress of Thomas Preston, married in the late 17th
century Sir William Lowther, 1st Bt, of Marske in Yorkshire, and their grandson
Sir William, the 3rd and last Baronet, left what was by now the Holker estate on
his death in 1753 to his cousin Lord George Augustus Cavendish, younger brother
of the 4th Duke of Devonshire (see BLGRY 2005), Sir William's mother
having been a daughter of the 2nd Duke.
The house had been
built in the early 17th century but was almost completely reconstructed in the
mid-19th by the 7th Duke of Devonshire, to whom it had passed since Lord George
died without issue. One wing dates from the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, the
other, which is set at a right-angle, from a third of a century later following
a fire in 1871. The result is externally unattractive, or at any rate
unfashionable, albeit formidable. Internally some of the 18th-century elements
survive, notably staircases. There is also some good panelling dating from the
time the original house was built, though it comes not from Holker itself but a
farm house nearby.
North-West
Peerage
200382
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2007
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