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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
[edit]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:
- William Cavendish (10 January 1783 – 17 January 1812)
- George Henry Compton Cavendish (14 October 1784 – 22 January 1809)
- Elizabeth Dorothy Cavendish (12 June 1786 - 17 September 1786)
- Lady Anne Cavendish (11 November 1787 – 17 May 1871), married Lord Charles FitzRoy, second son of the 4th Duke of Grafton
- Gen. Hon. Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish (5 November 1789 – 5 April 1873), married Sarah Fawkener, Frances Susan Lambton and Susanna Emma Byerlie
- Elizabeth Cavendish (13 March 1792 - 26 May 1794)
- The Hon. Charles Compton Cavendish (28 August 1793–10 November 1863), created Baron Chesham, married Lady Catherine Gordon, daughter of the 9th Marquess of Huntly
- Mary Louisa Cavendish (6 March 1795 - 7 June 1795)
- Lady Caroline Cavendish (5 April 1797 – 9 January 1867)
- Frederick Compton Cavendish (28 October 1801 - 27 January 1802)
- Charlotte Cavendish (23 April 1803 - 1 July 1803)
References
[edit]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.