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Chesham, Baron (UK, 1858)

Creation: let. pat. 15 Jan 1858

Family name: Cavendish

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Arms:

Sable three Stags' Heads Cabossed Argent

Crest:

A Snake nowed proper

Supporters:

Dexter:  a Buck proper gorged with a Chaplet of Roses Argent and Azure;  Sinister:  a Greyhound Argent gorged with a Plain Collar Gules thereon three Buckles Or

Motto:

Cavendo Tutus (Secure by caution)

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Charles Compton [Cavendish], 1st Baron Chesham

4th son of George Augustus Henry [Cavendish], 1st Earl of Burlington, by his wife Lady Elizabeth Compton, only child of Charles [Compton], 7th Earl of Northampton

born

28 Aug 1793

mar.

16 Jun 1814 Lady Catherine Susan Gordon (d. 14 Dec 1866), 1st dau. of George [Gordon], 9th Marquess of Huntly, by his wife Catherine Cope, 2nd dau. and cohrss. of Sir Charles Cope, 2nd Bt., of Brewerne

died

12 Nov 1863

created

15 Jan 1858 Baron Chesham, of Chesham in the County of Buckingham

suc. by

son

William George [Cavendish], 2nd Baron Chesham

born

29 Oct 1815

mar.

24 Jul 1849 Henrietta Frances Lascelles (d. 21 May 1884), dau. of Rt Hon William Saunders Sebright Lascelles (by his wife Lady Caroline Georgiana Howard, 1st dau. of George [Howard], 6th Earl of Carlisle), 2nd son of Henry [Lascelles], 2nd Earl of Harewood

died

26 Jun 1882

suc. by

son

Charles Compton William [Cavendish], 3rd Baron Chesham, KCB PC

born

13 Dec 1850

mar.

13 Nov 1877 his second cousin Lady Beatrice Constance Grosvenor (mar. (2) 4 Oct 1910 Maj John Alexander Moncrieffe MC;  d. 12 Jan 1911), 2nd dau. of Hugh Lupus [Grosvenor], 1st Duke of Westminster, by his first wife Lady Constance Gertrude Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th dau. of George Granville [Sutherland-Leveson-Gower], 2nd Duke of Sutherland

died

9 Nov 1907

suc. by

son

note

Master of the Buckhounds 1900

John Compton [Cavendish], 4th Baron Chesham, MC

born

13 Jun 1894

mar. (1)

17 Aug 1915 (div. 1937) Margot Mills (mar. (2) 14 Jul 1941 Francis Lorne FRIBA, son of Robert Lorne, of Edinburgh;  d. 1985), 1st dau. of John Layton Mills, of Tansor Court, Oundle, co. Northampton, by his wife Maude Helen Pilkington, dau. of Henry F Pilkington, of Park Lane Hall, Doncaster, co. York

mar. (2)

20 Oct 1938 Marion Caher Butler (former wife of (1) ...... Edwards, and (2) Theobald Walter Somerset Henry [Butler], 8th Earl of Carrick;  d. 6 Sep 1973), dau. of Daniel Charles Donoghue, of Philadelphia, USA

died

26 Apr 1952

suc. by

son by first wife

John Charles Compton [Cavendish], 5th Baron Chesham, PC

born

18 Jun 1916

mar.

28 Sep 1937 Mary Edmunds Marshall (b. c. 1916; d. 5 Mar 2007), 4th dau. of David Gregory Marshall MBE, of White Hill, Fen Ditton, co. Cambridge

died

23 Dec 1989

suc. by

son

Nicholas Charles [Cavendish], 6th Baron Chesham

born

7 Nov 1941

mar. (1)

4 Nov 1965 (div. 1969) Susan Donne Beauchamp, 1st dau. of Dr Frederick Guy Beauchamp, of the Old House Farm, Fulmer, co. Buckingham, by his wife Hon Susan Silence North (granted the title, rank and precedence of the daughter of a Baron by Royal Warrant in 1947), 2nd dau. of Hon Dudley William John North MC (by his wife Dorothy Donne, dau. of Capt J R Donne), 1st son and heir app. of William Frederick John [North], 12th Baron North

mar. (2)

1973 Suzanne Adrienne Byrne, 1st dau. of Alan Gray Byrne, of Rose Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

children by second wife

1. Hon Charles Gray Compton Cavendish, later 7th Baron Chesham

2. Hon William George Gray Cavendish (b. 13 Apr 1980)

died

27 Aug 2009

suc. by

son

Charles Gray Compton [Cavendish], 7th Baron Chesham

born

11 Nov 1974

mar.

15 Jun 2002 Sarah Elizabeth Dawson, dau. of Bruce Dawson, of London

children:

1. Hon Oliver Nicholas Bruce Cavendish (b. 2007)

1. Hon Isabella Alannah Suzanne Cavendish (b. 12 Apr 2004)

 Last updated 22 Sep 2009

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Title:

7th Baron Chesham, of Chesham in the County of Buckingham

(United Kingdom, let. pat. 15 Jan 1858)

Address:

The Old Post House, Church St Ropley, Hampshire SO24 0DR

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