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Cavendish


Cavendish


Cavendish may refer to:

People

  • The House of Cavendish, a British aristocratic family
  • Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673), British poet, philosopher, and scientist
  • Cavendish (author) (1831–1899), pen name of Henry Jones, English author on card games and tennis
  • Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), British natural philosopher and scientist
  • Mark Cavendish (born 1985), Manx professional road and track cyclist
  • Diana Cavendish from Little Witch Academia
  • Thomas Cavendish (1560-1592), English sailor who circumnavigated (1586-1588).

Places

Australia

  • County of Cavendish, Queensland
  • Cavendish Road, Brisbane, Queensland
  • Cavendish, Victoria

Bermuda

  • Cavendish Tribe, original name of Devonshire Parish, Bermuda

Canada

  • Cavendish, Alberta
  • Cavendish, Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Cavendish, a former township, subsequently merged and renamed to form Trent Lakes, Ontario
  • Cavendish, Prince Edward Island
  • Cavendish Beach, Prince Edward Island

England

  • Cavendish, Suffolk
  • Cavendish Square, London
  • Cavendish Bridge
  • Cavendish Golf Club, Buxton

New Zealand

  • Mount Cavendish, Christchurch

United States

  • Cavendish, Idaho
  • Cavendish, Vermont, a town
    • Cavendish (CDP), Vermont, the central village of the town
  • Fort Cavendish, Illinois, British name for the captured French Fort de Chartres

Other places

  • 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
  • Cavendish University Zambia, a private university in Lusaka, Zambia

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 currently held in Monaco
  • 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
  • Cavendish (TV series), a 2019 CBC sitcom set in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  • Cavendish Agri Services, Cavendish Farms, or Cavendish Produce, subsidiaries of Canadian conglomerate J. D. Irving
  • Cavendish's Dikdik (Madoqua kirkii cavendishi), an animal subspecies

See also

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

Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: Cavendish by Wikipedia (Historical)