Editing George Cavendish (writer) (section)

==Family==
Cavendish was born in 1497,<ref name="Jr.Stewart2012" /> the elder son of Thomas Cavendish (d. 1524), who was a senior financial official, the "clerk of the pipe", in the [[Exchequer of Pleas|Court of Exchequer]], and his wife, Alice Smith of Padbrook Hall, Suffolk.<ref name="britannica" /> He was the great-grandson of [[John Cavendish|Sir John Cavendish]] from whom the [[Dukes of Devonshire]] and the [[Dukes of Newcastle]] inherited the family name of [[House of Cavendish|Cavendish]]. George was an English courtier and author and the brother of [[William Cavendish (courtier)|William Cavendish]], the second husband of [[Bess of Hardwick]]. He was probably born at his father's manor of [[Cavendish, Suffolk, England|Cavendish]], in [[Suffolk]].<ref name="britannica" /> Later the family resided in London, in the parish of [[St Alban, Wood Street]], where Thomas Cavendish died in 1524.<ref name="britannica" /> Around this time Cavendish married Margery Kemp, of Spains Hall, an heiress, and the niece of Sir [[Thomas More]].<ref name="britannica" />