| Henry Cavendish | |
| Birth Name: | Hon. Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish |
| Birth Date: | 5 November 1789 |
| Death Date: | 5 April 1873 (aged 83) |
| Birth Place: | Westminster, London[1] |
| Death Place: | Westminster, London |
| Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
| Rank: | General |
| Branch: | British Army |
| Battles: | Napoleonic Wars |
| Spouse: | Sarah Fawkener (m.1811–1817), Frances Susan Lambton (m.1819, died 1840), Susanna Emma Byerlie (m.1873–his death) |
General Hon. Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish (5 November 1789 – 5 April 1873) was a British Army officer, politician and courtier.[2]
Cavendish was born in Westminster, the third son of George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington and Lady Elizabeth Compton, daughter and heiress of the 7th Earl of Northampton.[2] Cavendish was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 10th Dragoons in 1808 and was deployed to Spain and was wounded at the Battle of Corunna in January 1809 during the Peninsular War.[3] In 1812 he entered Parliament for Derby, a seat which he held until 1834.[3] In 1837, he was appointed Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal to Queen Victoria,[3] but resigned the post in 1841. On 2 June 1853 he was appointed colonel of The Queen's Bays, a post he held until his death.[3] He was promoted to major-general in 1846, lieutenant-general in 1854 and full general in 1862.[3]
He was uncle to William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire.[4]
He married three times:[2]
Firstly, on 24 October 1811, he married Sarah Fawkener (27 May 1789 – November 1817), daughter of William Augustus Fawkener. She inherited £40,000 from her father. They had four children:
On 16 June 1819, he married secondly, Frances Susan Lambton (died 23 November 1840), daughter of William Henry Lambton, sister of John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham and widow of Frederick Howard (killed in action at Waterloo). They had six children:
On 28 January 1873, he married Susanna Emma Byerlie (died c. 1910), and died two months later.