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Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

1758 - 1824

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Elizabeth Christiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (née Hervey; 13 May 1758 – 30 March 1824) was an English aristocrat and letter writer. She is best known as Lady Elizabeth Foster, the close friend of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. Elizabeth supplanted the Duchess, gaining the affections of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and later marrying him. Several of her letters are preserved. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire is the 893rd most popular nobleman (up from 974th in 2019), the 2,462nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,396th in 2019) and the 57th most popular British Nobleman.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ranks 893 out of 1,415. Before her are Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Eric I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg, Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara, and Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg. After her are Renaud I, Count of Dammartin, Judith of Bavaria, Duchess of Swabia, Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony, Burchard III, Duke of Swabia, John III, Duke of Brittany, and Johann Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1758, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ranks 23. Before her are Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Carl Friedrich Zelter, Charles Lee, Carle Vernet, 8th Dalai Lama, and Ryōkan. After her are Agustín de Betancourt, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén, Jean Joseph Mounier, and Valentin Vodnik. Among people deceased in 1824, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ranks 30. Before her are Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, Caesar Augustus Rodney, Charles Maturin, Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Blasius Merrem, and Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After her are Agustín de Betancourt, Fyodor Alekseyev, Hans Nielsen Hauge, André Thouin, Lachlan Macquarie, and Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ranks 2,463 out of 8,785. Before her are Gavin Rossdale (1965), Hugh Hudson (1936), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), Sebastian Coe (1956), Francis Beaumont (1584), and Carl Palmer (1950). After her are Martin Fowler (1963), Tessa Jowell (1947), Albert Austin (1881), William Smith (1790), Michelle Fairley (1964), and John Robertson (1953).

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Among NOBLEMEN In United Kingdom

Among noblemen born in United Kingdom, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ranks 57. Before her are Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737), Prince William, Duke of Gloucester (1689), Princess Beatrice of York (1988), Eleanor of Woodstock (1318), Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1415), and Princess Eugenie of York (1990). After her are Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873), Isabella of Scotland, Duchess of Brittany (1426), Jane Digby (1807), Amy Robsart (1532), Galyani Vadhana (1923), and Eleanor of Scotland (1433).

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