Charles Cavendish, 3rd Baron Chesham

"Imperial Yeomanry"
Lord Chesham as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, March 1900

Charles Compton William Cavendish, 3rd Baron Chesham PC (13 December 1850 – 9 November 1907) was a British Conservative politician who served as the last Master of the Buckhounds.

Biography

A member of the Cavendish family headed by the Duke of Devonshire, Chesham was the eldest son of William George Cavendish, 2nd Baron Chesham and his wife Henrietta Frances Lascelles. He took his seat in the House of Lords on his father's death in 1882, and later served in the Conservative administration of Lord Salisbury as Master of the Buckhounds from 1900 to 1901, when the office was abolished. Lord Chesham was admitted to the Privy Council in 1901, and also served as a Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales (later King George V) from 1901 to 1907.

Lord Chesham married Lady Beatrice Constance Grosvenor, daughter of Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, in 1877. He died in November 1907, aged 56, after a hunting accident. There is a bronze statue commemorating his life and deeds located in the Market Square in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire which has Grade II Listed Building status.^[1]

Lord Chesham was succeeded in the barony by his second but eldest surviving son John Compton Cavendish. His daughter Lilah Constance Cavendish married Mervyn Edward Manningham-Buller.

References

1. ^ Statue with Grade II Listed Building status. Heritage Gateway website, Retrieved 2009_10_19

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• www.thepeerage.com

Political offices
Preceded by The Earl of Coventry	Master of the Buckhounds 1900–1901	Succeeded by Office abolished
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Cavendish	Baron Chesham 1882–1907	Succeeded by John Cavendish