William Cavendish, 7th duke of Devonshire and 2d earl of Burlington (1808–91)

Statesman and benefactor of scientific and industrial enterprises. Whig MP for Cambridge University, 1829–31; for Malton, Yorkshire, 1831; for Derbyshire, 1831; for North Derbyshire, 1832–4. Succeeded to the earldom, 1834; to the dukedom, 1858. Chancellor of London University, 1836–56; of Cambridge University, 1861–91. President of the Royal Agricultural Society, 1870. Privy councillor, 1876. Knighted, 1858. FRS 1829.