Frederick Charles Cavendish
1836–82
Chief secretary for Ireland. Second son of the seventh duke of Devonshire. Educated at home and Trinity College, Cambridge. Liberal MP for the northern district of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1865–82. Interested in educational questions. Sworn in as chief secretary for Ireland, 6 May 1882, and murdered on the same day in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
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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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