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Devonshire, Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, Duke of, 1944-

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Personal name headingDevonshire, Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, Duke of, 1944-
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Variant(s)Cavendish, Peregrine Andrew Morny, Duke of Devonshire, 1944-
Cavendish, Peregrine Andrew Morny, Marquess of Hartington, 1944-
Devonshire, Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, 12th Duke of, 1944-
Hartington, Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, Marquess of, 1944-
Hartington, Stoker, 1944-
Cavendish, Stoker, 1944-
Devonshire, Stoker, 1944-
LocatedLondon (England) Bolton Abbey (England) Derbyshire (England)
Birth date1944-04-27
AffiliationChatsworth (England)
Found inChatsworth [VR], [2008?]: program screens (The Marquess of Hartington) voiceover (b. 1944)
Wikipedia, May 14, 2009 (Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, KCVO, CBE (born April 27, 1944))
Wikipedia, July 15, 2014 (Stoker Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire; Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire KCVO CBE (called Stoker, born 27 April 1944) is a British peer; he is the only surviving son of Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife, the former Deborah Mitford; he succeeded to the dukedom following the death of his father on 3 May 2004' prior to this succession, he was styled Marquess of Hartington; the Duke is well known in the world of horse racing and serves as Her Majesty's Representative at Ascot and chairman of Ascot Racecourse Ltd.; he was appointed a Trustee of the Wallace Collection in 2007; is a trustee of Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust, and is Chairman of the Devonshire Arms Hotel Group and Deputy Chairman of Sotheby's; he took up the position as the third Chancellor of the University of Derby at a ceremony on 28 October 2008 in Buxton; the range of Cavendish Pianos were named after the family name of the Duke to recognise his support which was critical to the establishment of the new firm)
Chatsworth, 2013: title page (the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire) page 4 of cover (Amanda and Stoker Hartington (now the 12th Duke of Devonshire) were married in 1967; they lived in London, where he worked in the book publishing industry and she raised their three children, before moving to Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, in 1981; since then they have worked on behalf of family businesses and many local and national charities; they are enthusastic collectors in several fields, especially modern British painting, sculpture, silver and ceramics; they became Duke and Duchess of Devonshire in May 2004 and moved to Chatsworth in January 2006)
The Peerage, via WWW, July 15, 2014 (Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire; born on April 27, 1944; he is the son of Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and Hon. Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford; he married Amanda Carmen Heywood-Lonsdale on June 28, 1967; he was styled as Marquess of Hartington between 1952 and 2004; he was educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England, at Exeter College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, and at Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England; he was invested as a Commander, Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in 1997; he was a director of Sotheby's; he lived in 2003 at Beamsley Hall, Bolton Abbey, Skipton, Yorkshire, England; he succeeded to the title of 12th Marquess of Hartington, co. Derby [E., 1694] on May 3, 2004; he succeeded to the title of 12th Duke of Devonshire [E., 1694] on May 3, 2004; he succeeded to the title of 7th Baron Cavendish of Keighley, co. York [U.K., 1831] on May 3, 2004; he succeeded to the title of 15th Baron Cavendish of Hardwick, co. Derby [E., 1605] on May 3, 2004; he succeeded to the title of 7th Earl of Burlington [U.K., 1831] on May 3, 2004; he succeeded to the title of 15th Earl of Devonshire [E., 1618] on May 3, 2004; he was invested as a Knight Commander, Royal Victorian Order (K.C.V.O.) in January 2009)
The sixth Duke of Devonshire's handbook of Chatsworth, 2020: page 9 (Stoker Devonshire, the Duke of Devonshire)
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