Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (7 June 1757 – 30 March 1806), born Georgiana Spencer, was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and mother of William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire. Her father, John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer, was a great-grandson of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Her niece was Lady Caroline Lamb. Among the descendants of her family are the present Duke of Devonshire (via her granddaughter); Diana, Princess of Wales (born Lady Diana Spencer); and Sarah, Duchess of York (via her illegitimate child Eliza Courtney).

Gallery

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  Georgiana Cavendish, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1775
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  With her siblings, Henrietta and George, by Angelica Kauffmann, c. 1780
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  William Cavendish's first wife, the former Lady Georgiana Spencer, by Joshua Reynolds, c. 1780–81
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  Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough, 1783
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  Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Joshua Reynolds, 1786
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  Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough, 1787. From the Devonshire Collection.
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  Elizabeth "Bess" Hervey Foster by Sir Joshua Reynolds
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  Elizabeth Foster's second husband, with whom she lived from 1782 on: William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire

L'Assemblée Nationale

• L'Assemblée Nationale, by James Gillray. Depicted:

• Sir Robert Adair (1763–1855)
• Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765–1802)
• Henrietta (Spencer), Countess of Bessborough (1761–1821)
• Richard Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776–1839)
• George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham (1753–1813)
• Albinia, Countess of Buckinghamshire (died 1816)
• Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt (1770–1844)
• Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (1748–1825)
• George James Cholmondeley, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley (1749–1827)
• Edward Smith Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby (1752–1834)
• Elizabeth (née Farren), Countess of Derby (1759?–1829)
• Georgiana (Spencer), Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806)
• Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine (1750–1823), Lord Chancellor
• Maria Anne Fitzherbert (née Smythe) (1756–1837), morganatic wife of George IV
• Charles James Fox (1749–1806)
• Elizabeth Bridget Fox (née Cane) (1750–1842)
• Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827), Son of George III; Commander-in-Chief of the Army
• George III of the United Kingdom (1738–1820)
• George IV of the United Kingdom (1762–1830), Regent 1811–1819
• Jane (Maxwell), Duchess of Gordon (1749?–1812)
• William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759–1834), Prime Minister
• Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), Prime Minister
• Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754–1826)
• Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones (1765–1811)
• Dorothea Jordan (née Bland) (1762–1816)
• John Macmahon (circa 1754–1817)
• Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), Emperor of France
• John Nicholls (1745?–1832)
• Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk (1746–1815)
• James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury (1748–1823), Lord Chamberlain
• Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury (1750–1835)
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)
• George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758–1834), First Lord of the Admiralty
• Michael Angelo Taylor (circa 1757–1834)
• George Tierney (1761–1830)
• John Horne Tooke (1736–1812)
• George Walpole (1758–1835)
• William IV of the United Kingdom (1765–1837)
• William Windham (1750–1810)