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Elizabeth Cavendish, Countess of Burlington (née Compton; 25 June 1760 – ) was a British heiress.

She was a daughter of Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton and Lady Anne Somerset, eldest daughter of Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort.

Marriage

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Portrait of the Children of Lord George Cavendish, 1790, by Sir Thomas Lawrence

On 27 February 1782, she married Lord George Cavendish, a younger son of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. They had at least eleven children of whom six children survived to adulthood:

References

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Works cited

  • Hattersley, Roy (2013). The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4481-8227-5.
  • Jungnickel, Christa; McCormmach, Russell (1996). Cavendish. American Philosophical Society. ISBN 978-0-87169-220-7.
  • Lodge, Edmund (1834). The peerage of the British empire as at present existing. To which is added the baronetage.

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