Spencer Compton Cavendish, marquess of Hartington and 8th duke of Devonshire
1833–1908
Politician. MA, Cambridge, 1854. Liberal MP for North Lancashire, 1857–68. Marquess of Hartington, 1858–91. Chief secretary for Ireland, 1870–4. Liberal leader in the Commons, 1875–80. Secretary of state for India, 1880. Secretary of state for war, 1882. Succeeded to the dukedom in 1891. Knighted, 1892. FRS 1892.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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