Cavendish
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Cavendish may refer to:
- Cavendish banana, the dominant commercial variety of banana
- Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge
- Cavendish Tobacco, both a type and brand of pipe tobacco
- Cavendish Motor Services, a bus company part-owned by Renown Travel, operating several routes in East Sussex, England
For the fictional firm "Cavendish Foods", see To the Manor Born.
[edit] People
- The House of Cavendish, a British noble family, and its members and descendants
[edit] As a surname
- Margaret Cavendish (born 1623), English aristocrat and writer
- Ada Cavendish (1839-1895), British actress
- Henry Cavendish, British physicist, discoverer of hydrogen
- Mark Cavendish (born 1985), cyclist from the Isle of Man
- Michael Cavendish (born c. 1565), English composer
- Lord Richard Cavendish (1752-1781) Member of the Parliament of Great Britain
- Lord Richard Frederick Cavendish (1871-1946) British aristocrat, author, magistrate and politician
- Richard Cavendish (occult writer) (born 1930), British writer on topics dealing with the occult
- Thomas Cavendish (admiral) (1564-1593), English admiral
[edit] As a given name
- Charles Cavendish Boyle (1849-1916), British colonial administrator
- Edward Montagu Cavendish Stanley, Lord Stanley (1894-1938), British politician
[edit] Places
- Cavendish, Alberta, Canada
- Cavendish, Bermuda
- Cavendish, Idaho, United States
- Cavendish, Missouri, US
- Cavendish, Newfoundland, Canada
- Cavendish, Ontario, Canada
- Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada
- Cavendish, Queensland, Australia
- Cavendish, Suffolk, England
- Cavendish, Vermont, US
- Cavendish, Victoria, Australia
- Cavendish (crater), a crater on the moon
- Cavendish Bay, Newfoundland, Canada
- Cavendish Hall at the University of Nottingham
- Cavendish Lake, Ontario, Canada
- Cavendish Square, London, England
- Fort Cavendish, Illinois, US
- Lac Cavendish, Quebec, Canada
- Mount Cavendish, Christchurch, New Zealand
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