Cavendish Explained

Cavendish may refer to:

People

See main article: Cavendish (surname).

• The House of Cavendish, a British aristocratic family
• Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673), British poet, philosopher, and scientist
• Cavendish (author) (1831–1899), pen name of Henry Jones, English author on card games and tennis
• Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), British natural philosopher and scientist
• Mark Cavendish (born 1985), Manx professional road and track cyclist
• Diana Cavendish from Little Witch Academia
• Thomas Cavendish (1560-1592), English sailor who circumnavigated (1586-1588).

Places

Australia

• County of Cavendish, Queensland
• Cavendish Road, Brisbane, Queensland
• Cavendish, Victoria

Bermuda

• Cavendish Tribe, original name of Devonshire Parish, Bermuda

Canada

• Cavendish, Alberta
• Cavendish, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Cavendish, a former township, subsequently merged and renamed to form Trent Lakes, Ontario
• Cavendish, Prince Edward Island
• Cavendish Beach, Prince Edward Island

England

• Cavendish, Suffolk
• Cavendish Square, London
• Cavendish Bridge
• Cavendish Golf Club, Buxton

New Zealand

• Mount Cavendish, Christchurch

United States

• Cavendish, Idaho
• Cavendish, Vermont, a town
  • Cavendish (CDP), Vermont, the central village of the town
• Fort Cavendish, Illinois, British name for the captured French Fort de Chartres

Other places

• Cavendish (crater), a crater on the Moon

Academic facilities

• Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge
• Cavendish School (disambiguation), various schools
• Cavendish Hall, one of the University of Nottingham Halls of Residence
• Cavendish University Zambia, a private university in Lusaka, Zambia

Other uses

• Cavendish banana, the dominant commercial variety of banana
• Cavendish tobacco, a process of cutting and curing tobacco
• Cavendish Invitational, high-stakes bridge tournament currently held in Monaco
• Cavendish experiment weighing the Earth
• Cavendish Motor Services, a bus company part-owned by Renown Travel, operating several routes in East Sussex, England
• "Cavendish Foods", a fictional supermarket chain appearing on the British sitcom To the Manor Born
• Cavendish (TV series), a 2019 CBC sitcom set in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Cavendish Agri Services, Cavendish Farms, or Cavendish Produce, subsidiaries of Canadian conglomerate J. D. Irving
• Cavendish's Dikdik (Madoqua kirkii cavendishi), an animal subspecies