Cavendish facts for kids
Cavendish may refer to:
People
- The House of Cavendish, a British noble family
- Mark Cavendish (born 1985), professional Manx cyclist
- Ada Cavendish (1839–1895), British actress
- George Cavendish (writer) (c. 1494–1562) English writer and biographer of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
- Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), British physicist, discoverer of hydrogen
- Lord Ian Charles Cavendish (born 1973)
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne (born 1623), English aristocrat, writer, and philosopher
- Michael Cavendish (born c. 1565), English composer
- Michael Robert Cavendish (born c. 1972), legal ethics writer and theorist
- Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire (born 1944), British Peer
- Lord Richard Cavendish (1752–1781), British MP
- Lord Richard Cavendish (1871–1946), British MP, aristocrat, author, magistrate
- Richard Cavendish (occult writer) (born 1930), British writer on topics dealing with the occult
- Sid Cavendish (1876–1954), English footballer with Southampton and Clapton Orient
- Thomas Cavendish (1564–1593), English admiral
- Henry Jones (writer) (1831–1899), pen name "Cavendish", English author on card games and tennis
Places
- Australia
- Cavendish, Queensland
- Cavendish, Victoria
- Bermuda
- Cavendish, Bermuda
- Canada
- Cavendish, Alberta
- Cavendish, Newfoundland
- Cavendish, Ontario
- Cavendish, Prince Edward Island
- Cavendish Beach, Prince Edward Island
- Cavendish Bay, Newfoundland
- Cavendish Lake, Ontario
- Lac Cavendish, Quebec
- England
- Cavendish, Suffolk
- Cavendish Square, London
- Cavendish Bridge
- New Zealand
- Mount Cavendish, Christchurch
- United States
- Cavendish, Idaho
- Cavendish, Missouri
- Cavendish, Vermont
- Fort Cavendish, Illinois
- Other
- 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
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 in Las Vegas
- 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
Related pages
- All pages beginning with Cavendish
- All pages with titles containing "Cavendish"
See also
In Spanish: Cavendish para niños
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