Editing Chiswick House (section)

===Cavendish family (1758–1929)===
[[File:Giraffes in Chiswick Park ILN 15 June 1844.jpg|upright=1.3|thumb|The 6th Duke of Devonshire's garden party for Tsar Nicholas of Russia and 700 guests, with giraffes in the park, from ''[[The Illustrated London News]]'', 15 June 1844]]

After the death of Lady Burlington in 1758, the villa and gardens passed to the Cavendish family. William Cavendish died in 1764, leaving the property to his son William, the 5th [[Duke of Devonshire]]. In 1774, William married Lady [[Georgiana Spencer]], the Duchess of Devonshire,<ref name="Lodge1867">{{cite book |last=Lodge |first=Edmund |title=The peerage and baronetage of the British Empire as at present existing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RCoEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA179 |year=1867 |publisher=Hurst and Blackett |page=179}}</ref> who enjoyed spending time at Chiswick which she referred to as her "earthly paradise".<ref name="Gross2004">{{cite book |last=Gross |first=Jonathan David |title=Emma, or, The unfortunate attachment: a sentimental novel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9itOPHgUIUC&pg=PR11 |date=July 2004 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-0-7914-6146-4 |page=11}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Foreman |first=Amanda |title=Georgiana's World. The Illustrated Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=2001 |page=182}}</ref> She regularly invited members of the [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig party]] to the house for tea parties in the garden.<ref name="Libraries2000">{{cite book |title=Choice |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4wkoAQAAIAAJ |year=2000 |publisher=American Library Association |page= |isbn= }}</ref><ref name="Jullian1967">{{cite book |last=Jullian |first=Philippe |title=Edward and the Edwardians |url=https://archive.org/details/edwardedwardians00jull |url-access=registration |year=1967 |publisher=Viking Press}}</ref> In 1788 the Cavendish family demolished the Jacobean house and hired architect John White to add two wings to the villa to increase the amount of accommodation.<ref name="HibbertWeinreb2008">{{cite book |last1=Hibbert |first1=Christopher |last2=Weinreb |first2=Ben |title=The London Encyclopaedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wN_H-__MBpYC&pg=PA165 |date=8 August 2008 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-1-4050-4924-5 |page=165}}</ref> The Duchess was responsible for the building of the Classical Bridge in 1774, designed by the architect [[James Wyatt]],<ref name="HibbertWeinreb2008"/> and the planting of roses on the walls of the new wings and the sides of the buildings. She died in 1806.

In 1813, a {{convert|300|ft|m}} conservatory was built by [[Samuel Ware]], with the purpose of housing exotic fruits and camellias.{{sfn|Groves|Mawrey|2010|p=78}} > Gardener Lewis Kennedy built an Italian inspired geometric garden around the conservatory. In 1827, after a rapid decline in health, Tory Prime Minister [[George Canning]] died in the same room where Charles James Fox had died in 1806.<ref name="England1840">{{cite book |author=England |title=The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales. 4 volumes bound in 12 parts with supplements |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GNcHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA442 |year=1840 |page=442}}</ref>

[[File:Floor paln of Chiswick House with additional wings.jpg|thumb|Floor plan, showing the wings used for the patients of [[Chiswick Asylum]], now removed]]

Between 1862 and 1892 the villa was rented by the Cavendish family to a number of successive tenants, including the [[Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland|Duchess of Sutherland]] in 1867,<ref name="CockburnKing1995">{{cite book |last1=Cockburn |first1=J. S. |last2=King |first2=H. P. F. |last3=McDonnell |first3=K. G. T. |others=University of London. Institute of Historical Research |title=A History of the county of Middlesex |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VP3uAAAAMAAJ |year=1995 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] for the Institute of Historical Research |page=75 |isbn=978-0197227565 }}</ref> the Prince of Wales in the 1870s,<ref name="Country life">{{cite book |title=Country Life |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ynZMAAAAYAAJ |year=1979 |publisher=[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]]}}</ref> and [[John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute]], patron of the architect [[William Burges]], from 1881 to 1892.{{sfn|Hewlings|1989|pp=52–53}}