| Authorised form of name | Cavendish; Spencer Compton (1833 - 1908); 8th Duke of Devonshire |
| Dates | 1833 - 1908 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Holker Hall, Lancashire, England |
| Date of birth | 23 July 1833 |
| Place of death | Hotel Metropole, Cannes, France |
| Date of death | 24/03/1908 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Edensor, near Chatsworth, Derbyshire |
| Activity | Education:
Privately; Trinity College, Cambridge. LLD (1862), DCL (1878, Oxford)
Career:
MP for North Lancashire (1857-1868); Under Secretary for War (1863-1866); Privy Councillor (1866); Secretary for War (1866 and 1882-1885); Postmaster General (1868-1871); MP for Radnor (1869-1880); Chief Secretary for Ireland (1871-1874); Secretary for India (1880-1882); MP for North East Lancashire (1880-1885); MP for Rosendale division (1885-1891); Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1892-1908); President of Council (1895-1903); died of pneumonia
Freemason, initiated, as Lord Cavendish (his style 1834-1835) 12 December 1853, passed 19 January 1854, raised 13 March 1854, Scientific Lodge No 105 (subsequently No 88) Cambridge.
Honours:
KG 1892; GCVO
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/03/1892 |
| Relationships | Son of William Cavendish, 7th Dike of Devonshire (FRS 1829); Marquess of Hartington (1858-1891); married Louise Fredericke Auguste, widow of William Drago Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester and daughter of Karl Franh Viktor, Count von Ahlen, of Hannover and his wife Hermine de Schminke |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
The Library and Museum of Freemasonry, ;Freemasons and the Royal Society; Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who were Freemasons' (2010), page 18
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1909 vol 82 pp xi-xvii signed by G D L
References:
Vanity Fair 27 March 1869, 21 July 1888, 15 May 1902
Notes:
Styled Lord Cavendish of Keighley between 1834 and 1858 and Marquess of Hartington between 1858 and 1891. |
| Royal Society code | NA1427 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1892/02 | Cavendish, Spencer Compton, 8th Duke of Devonshire: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/000773 | Cavendish, Spencer Compton, 8th Duke of Devonshire | nd |
| NLB/17/421 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to The Marquis of Salisbury [Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil], Arthur James Balfour, Joseph Chamberlain, George Joachim Goschen, Sir John Eldon Gorst, the Duke of Devonshire [Spencer Compton Cavendish], the Earl of Halsbury [Hardinge Stanley Giffard], and Viscount Richard Assheton Cross | 27 October 1898 |
| NLB/37/472 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Harrison & Sons | 24 March 1908 |
| MC/23/263 | Letter from [George Downing] Livand, Cambridge, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [The Royal Society] | 18 October 1908 |