CAVENDISH

Frederick Charles ( 2 son of 7 Duke of Devons hire, b. 1808 ). b. Compton place, East bourne 30 Nov. 1836; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1858; private sec. to Earl Granville, pres. of the council 1859–64; M.P. for north division of west riding of Yorkshire 15 July 1865 to death; private sec. to W. E. Gladstone, July 1872 to Aug. 1873; a lord of the treasury, Aug. 1873 to Feb. 1874; financial sec. to the treasury, April 1880 to May 1882; chief sec. to Earl Spencer, lord lieutenant of Ireland, May 1882, sworn in at the Castle, Dublin 6 May; stabbed to death in Phœnix park, Dublin by a a ins calling themselves “the Invincibles” 6 May 1882. bur. in churchyard of Edensor near Chats worth 11 May, a memorial window placed in St. Margaret’s church, Westminster at cost of members of House of Commons 22 Feb. 1883, statue of him at Barrow in Furne uncovered 2 June 1885. C. Brown’s Life of Lord Beacons field ii , 237 (1882), portrait ; I.L.N. xlviii , 144 (1866), portrait, lxxx , 456, 477, 502 (1882), portrait .