Sir Rt Hon. Duke William Cavendish KG PC
(1698-1755)

3rd Duke of Devonshire (from 1729), Privy Counsellor (from 1731), Lord Privy Seal (1731-1733), and 550th Knight of the Order of the Garter (from 1733)

Died aged 57

William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, KG, PC (26 September 1698 – 5 December 1755) was a British nobleman and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1721 to 1729 when he inherited the Dukedom.

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Derby, United Kingdom

This building was once a famous coaching inn known as The George. In 1745 it became the headquarters of the Duke of Devonshire where he raised the Derbyshire Blues to combat the invading Highland Army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart. It was to this inn that the van of the Prince's army arrived on the 4th December 1745 to demand billets for 9000 troops

, Derby, United Kingdom where they had his Headquarters (1745)