Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish

Lord Charles Cavendish
Adele and Charles Cavendish (1932)
Born(1905-08-05)5 August 1905
Died23 March 1944(1944-03-23) (aged 38)
Burial placeLismore Cathedral
Spouse
(m. 1932)
Parent(s)Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire
Lady Evelyn Petty-FitzMaurice

Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish (5 August 1905 โ€“ 23 March 1944) was the second son of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire and his wife, Lady Evelyn Petty-FitzMaurice.

Biography

Cavendish was educated at St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, Eton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined the Royal Tank Regiment where he became a Lieutenant.

The 9th Duke of Devonshire in 1919 with four of his children, including Lord Charles (seated, bottom left).

Marriage

Cavendish was first introduced to dancer and actress Adele Astaire in London in 1927, on the closing night of her show Funny Face. He courted her while he worked for the bank J.P. Morgan & Co. in New York City. Adele proposed to Lord Charles at the 21 Club in Manhattan. They were married in 1932, at his family seat of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. Their children โ€“ a daughter born in 1933 and twin sons born in 1935 โ€“ lived only a few hours. The couple lived at Lismore Castle in County Waterford, Ireland, which had been given to them as a wedding present by Lord Charles's father, the 9th Duke of Devonshire.

Death

Cavendish died at Lismore Castle, aged 38, of long-term acute alcoholism and was buried at Lismore Cathedral. A clause in Lord Charles's will stipulated that Lismore Castle was to go to his nephew, Lord Andrew Cavendish (later the 11th Duke of Devonshire), if Adele remarried, which she did in 1947.

Ancestry


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