Robert Payne (natural philosopher)
Robert Payne( 1596–1651) was an English cleric and academic, known also as a natural philosopher and experimentalist.
He was associated with the so- called Welbeck Academy by his position as chaplain( with duties as secretary) to William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Newcastle.
The position also brought him a close friendship with Thomas Hobbes.
Samuel Ware
Samuel Ware( 1781-1860) was a British architect, who worked for the sixth Duke of Devonshire on his properties in England and Ireland.
He is best known for having designed London's Burlington Arcade along the west side of Burlington House in Piccadilly for George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington.
Charles Cavendish, 1st Baron Chesham
Charles Compton Cavendish, 1st Baron Chesham( 28 August 1793 – 12 November 1863) was a British Liberal politician.
Cavendish was the fourth son of George Augustus Henry Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington, third son of the former Prime Minister William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, and his wife Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle, daughter of the architect Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork.
His mother was Lady Elizabeth Compton, daughter of Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton.
In 1814, at the age of 21, Cavendish was elected Member of Parliament for Aylesbury, a seat he held until 1818, and later sat for Newtown from 1821 to 1830, for Yarmouth( Isle of Wight) from 1831 to 1832, for East Sussex from 1832 to 1841, for Youghal from 1841 to 1847 and for Buckinghamshire from 1847 to 1857.
In 1858 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Chesham, of Chesham in the County of Buckingham.
Lord Chesham married Lady Catherine Susan Gordon, daughter of George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly, in 1814.
He died in November 1863, aged 70.
He was succeeded in the barony by his son William George Cavendish.
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire,( 8 May 1720 – 2 October 1764), styled Lord Cavendish before 1729 and Marquess of Hartington between 1729 and 1755, was a British Whig statesman and nobleman who was briefly nominal Prime Minister of Great Britain.
He was the first son of William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire and his wife, the former Catherine Hoskins.
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire( 25 January 164018 August 1707) was an English soldier, nobleman, and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1684 when he inherited his father's peerage as Earl of Devonshire.
He was part of the" Immortal Seven" group that invited William III, Prince of Orange to depose James II of England as monarch during the Glorious Revolution, and was rewarded with the elevation to Duke of Devonshire in 1694.
William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire KB FRS( c. 10 October 161723 November 1684) was an English nobleman and politician, known as a royalist supporter.
Thomas Pernes
Thomas Pernes( 25 February 1956 – 26 February 2018) was an Austrian avant- garde composer and performance artist who lived and worked in Vienna.
He studied piano with Bruno Seidlhofer and composition with Roman Haubenstock- Ramati.
The start of his career in contemporary music was marked by the première of the 1st string quartet at Wiener Konzerthaus in 1976.
Already in the early 1980s he had widened the narrow sphere of interest of the classical avant- garde.
At a time when the term crossover was not yet known he worked with elements of folk music and jazz just as he used electronics to enlarge the possibilities of composition.
In the 90s he started developing his own form of music theatre, known as Klangtheater:" When Thomas Pernes speaks about sound theater as representation or reproduction of reality, one should think not only superficially of the everyday elements such as sound, fragments of conversation, thought, and quotation that are built into the montage.
It is rather and above all the unity that arises paradoxically from disparate and divergent elements and their individual motions that corresponds in its dialectical structure to reality.
As Hegel says about reality and truth, so too is the sound theater" the Baccahanalisn revel in which no member is not drunk Thomas Pernes has had performances and commissions at: Donaueschinger Musiktage, ISCM World Music Days in Jerusalem, Daiichiseimei Hall/ Tokyo, IRCAM/ Paris, Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts/ Washington, Pan Music Festival/ Seoul, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart, Holland Festival/ Amsterdam, Biennale/ Venice, Musikprotokolle im steirischen herbst, Wiener Staatsoper, Internationales Bucknerfest Linz, Ars Electronica, Wiener Festwochen, Wiener Musikverein amongst others.
He died on 26 February 2018, one day after turning 62.
William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire MP( 27 December 1552 – 3 March 1626) was an English nobleman, politician, and courtier.
Catherine Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Catherine Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire( 1700 – 8 May 1777), formerly Catherine Hoskins( or Hoskyn), was the wife of William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, and mother of the 4th Duke.
William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire( 1672 – 4 June 1729) was a British nobleman and politician.
He was the eldest son of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire and Lady Mary Butler.
A prominent Whig, he was sworn of the Privy Council in 1707, and served as Lord President of the Council from 1716 to 1717 and 1725 to 1729.
He married The Hon. Rachel Russell( 1674 – 1725), daughter of William Russell, Lord Russell on 21 June 1688.
They had five children:

Question: Who was born earlier, Thomas Pernes or William Cavendish, 1St Earl Of Devonshire?
Answer: William Cavendish, 1St Earl Of Devonshire