Editing Duke of Devonshire (section)

===Cavendish knights, and the 1st Earl of Devonshire===
[[Image:4th Duke of Devonshire after Hudson.jpg|thumb|right|[[William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire]] briefly Prime Minister between 1756 and 1757.]]

The Cavendish family descends from [[John Cavendish|Sir John Cavendish]], who took his name from the village of [[Cavendish, Suffolk]], where he held an estate in the 14th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.europeanheraldry.org/united-kingdom/families/families-f/house-cavendish/|title=European Heraldry :: House of Cavendish (Devonshire)|website=europeanheraldry.org|language=en|access-date=2017-08-09|archive-date=9 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809211028/http://www.europeanheraldry.org/united-kingdom/families/families-f/house-cavendish/|url-status=dead}}</ref> He served as [[Chief Justice of the King's Bench]] from 1372 to 1381, and was killed in the [[Peasants' Revolt]] in 1381. Two of his great-grandsons were [[George Cavendish (writer)|George Cavendish]], [[Thomas Wolsey|Cardinal Thomas  Wolsey]]'s biographer, and George's younger brother [[William Cavendish (courtier)|Sir William Cavendish]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cheshirenow.co.uk/cavendish_family.html|title=The Cavendish Family- Dukes of Devonshire|website=cheshirenow.co.uk|access-date=2017-08-09}}</ref> Sir William gained great wealth from his position in the [[Exchequer]] and also (allegedly) from unfairly taking advantage of the [[dissolution of the Monasteries]]. He married (1547) as his third wife the famous [[Bess of Hardwick]], with whom he had eight children. One of their sons, Sir Charles Cavendish (1553–1617), was the father of [[William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne]] (1592–1676; see [[Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne]] for more information on this branch of the family), while another son, Henry Cavendish, was the ancestor of the [[Baron Waterpark|Barons Waterpark]]. Yet another son, [[William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire|William Cavendish]] (1552–1626), was a politician and a supporter of the colonization of [[Colony and Dominion of Virginia|Virginia]]. In 1605 he was raised to the peerage as '''Baron Cavendish''', of Hardwicke in the County of Derby, and in 1618 he was further honoured when he was made '''Earl of Devonshire'''. Both titles are in the [[Peerage of England]].