Cavendish

Cavendish may refer to:

People

• The House of Cavendish, a British noble family

• Mark Cavendish (born 1985), professional Manx cyclist
• Ada Cavendish (1839–1895), British actress
• George Cavendish (writer) (c. 1494–1562) English writer and biographer of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
• Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), British physicist, discoverer of hydrogen
• Lord Ian Charles Cavendish (born 1973)
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne (born 1623), English aristocrat, writer, and philosopher
• Michael Cavendish (born c. 1565), English composer
• Michael Robert Cavendish (born c. 1972), legal ethics writer and theorist
• Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire (born 1944), British Peer
• Lord Richard Cavendish (1752–1781), British MP
• Lord Richard Cavendish (1871–1946), British MP, aristocrat, author, magistrate
• Richard Cavendish (occult writer) (born 1930), British writer on topics dealing with the occult
• Sid Cavendish (1876–1954), English footballer with Southampton and Clapton Orient
• Thomas Cavendish (1564–1593), English admiral
• Henry Jones (writer) (1831–1899), pen name "Cavendish", English author on card games and tennis

Places

Australia

• Cavendish, Queensland
• Cavendish, Victoria

Bermuda

• Cavendish, Bermuda

Canada

• Cavendish, Alberta
• Cavendish, Newfoundland
• Cavendish, Ontario
• Cavendish, Prince Edward Island
• Cavendish Beach, Prince Edward Island
• Cavendish Bay, Newfoundland
• Cavendish Lake, Ontario
• Lac Cavendish, Quebec

England

• Cavendish, Suffolk
• Cavendish Square, London
• Cavendish Bridge

New Zealand

• Mount Cavendish, Christchurch

United States

• Cavendish, Idaho
• Cavendish, Missouri
• Cavendish, Vermont
• Fort Cavendish, Illinois

Other

• Cavendish (crater), a crater on the moon

Academic facilities

• Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge
• Cavendish School (disambiguation), various schools
• Cavendish Hall, one of the University of Nottingham Halls of Residence

Other uses

• Cavendish banana, the dominant commercial variety of banana
• Cavendish tobacco, a process of cutting and curing tobacco
• Cavendish Invitational, high stakes bridge tournament in Las Vegas
• Cavendish experiment weighing the Earth
• Cavendish Motor Services, a bus company part-owned by Renown Travel, operating several routes in East Sussex, England
• "Cavendish Foods", a fictional supermarket chain appearing on the British sitcom To the Manor Born

Related pages

• All pages beginning with Cavendish
• All pages with titles containing "Cavendish"