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.
Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Elizabeth Christiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire( 13 May 1758 – 30 March 1824) was an English novelist and aristocrat.
She is best known as Lady Elizabeth Foster, the close friend of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.
Elizabeth supplanted the Duchess, gaining the affections of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and later marrying him.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire(" née" Spencer;; 7 June 1757 – 30 March 1806), was an English socialite, political organizer, style icon, author, and activist.
Of noble birth from the Spencer family, married into the Cavendish family, she was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and the mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire.
As the Duchess of Devonshire, she garnered much attention and fame in society during her lifetime.
With a pre-eminent position in the peerage of England, the duchess was famous for her charisma, political influence, beauty, unusual marital arrangement, love affairs, socializing, and gambling.
She was the great- great- great- grandaunt of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Their lives, centuries apart, have been compared in tragedy.
Lord Edward Cavendish
Lieutenant- Colonel Lord Edward Cavendish MP( 28 January 1838 – 18 May 1891) was a 19th- century British politician, soldier, and nobleman.
Born in Marylebone, Cavendish was the third son of William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, by his wife, Lady Blanche Howard( a daughter of the 6th Earl of Carlisle and a niece of the 6th Duke of Devonshire).
His father and his two surviving brothers were all Members of Parliament( MPs): his eldest brother Spencer, MP for North Lancashire 1857–91 and later 8th Duke of Devonshire, led the Liberal Party and was asked three times to be Prime Minister by Queen Victoria; the middle brother, Frederick was MP for the West Riding and Chief Secretary for Ireland and was assassinated in 1882.
Cavendish was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade.
On retirement from the regular army he joined the 2nd Derbyshire Militia( later the Sherwood Foresters), but transferred to the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in 1888.
Cavendish served as MP for West Derbyshire from the creation of the constituency until his death.
Like his eldest brother, he became a Liberal Unionist in reaction to the Liberal Party's policy on Irish Home Rule.
Upon his death in Marylebone aged 53, his son, Victor, was elected unopposed to replace him, later becoming the 9th Duke of Devonshire.
Cavendish married his cousin Emma Lascelles( d. 1920), a daughter of the Rt. Hon. William Lascelles, on 3 August 1865.
They had three sons:
Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Evelyn Emily Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, DStJ, (née Petty-FitzMaurice; 27 August 1870 – 2 April 1960) was the wife of The 9th Duke of Devonshire.
She was born the elder daughter of the politician and diplomat The 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, and grew up amidst public life.
Evelyn's marriage to Cavendish, the heir of The 8th Duke of Devonshire, led to her becoming Duchess of Devonshire in 1908.
With her position, she oversaw the reorganisation of the Devonshire estates and presided over four English houses and one Irish castle.
Evelyn held the position of Mistress of the Robes to Queen Mary from 1910 until 1916, when she accompanied her husband upon his appointment as Governor General of Canada.
The Duchess held the position Viceregal Consort until the Duke's term ended in 1921.
Upon returning to England, the Duchess again was appointed Mistress of the Robes to Queen Mary, holding the position until the latter's death in 1953.
The Dowager Duchess, widowed since 1938, spent her final years living at Hardwick Hall, which was made over to HM Treasury in 1956, in part payment of death duties.
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond
Charles Henry Gordon- Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond, 8th Duke of Lennox, 3rd Duke of Gordon,( 30 December 1870 – 7 May 1935), known as Lord Settrington 1870 – 1903, and as Earl of March 1903 – 1928, was a British Peer and politician.
William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire
William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire,( 21 May 1790 – 18 January 1858), styled Marquess of Hartington until 1811, was a British peer, courtier, nobleman, and Whig politician.
Known as the" Bachelor Duke", he was Lord Chamberlain of the Household between 1827 and 1828 and again between 1830 and 1834.
The Cavendish banana is named after him.
William Roscoe
William Roscoe( 8 March 1753 – 30 June 1831) was an English historian, leading abolitionist, art collector, M.P.( briefly), lawyer, banker, botanist and miscellaneous writer, perhaps best known today as an early abolitionist and for his poem for children" The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast".
Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire,( 23 July 183324 March 1908), styled Lord Cavendish of Keighley between 1834 and 1858 and Marquess of Hartington between 1858 and 1891, was a British statesman.
He has the distinction of having served as leader of three political parties: as Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons( 1875 – 1880) and as of the Liberal Unionist Party( 1886 – 1903) and of the Unionists in the House of Lords( 1902 – 1903)( though the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists operated in close alliance from 1892 – 1903 and would eventually merge in 1912).
He also declined to become prime minister on three occasions, not because he was not a serious politician but because the circumstances were never right.
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.

Question: Who died first, William Roscoe or Spencer Cavendish, 8Th Duke Of Devonshire?
Answer: William Roscoe