One notable practitioner was Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire whose efforts on behalf of Charles James Fox in the 18th century included press relations, lobbying and, with her friends, celebrity campaigning.

Image: Thomas Gainsboroguh Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire 1783. jpg | Her Grace Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ( 1783 ), National Gallery of Art

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* March 30 – Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ( b. 1757 )

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ( née Spencer ; ; 7 June 1757 – 30 March 1806 ) was the first wife of the 5th Duke of Devonshire, and mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire.

* Georgiana Howard, Countess of Carlisle ( née the Lady Georgiana Dorothy Cavendish ; called " Little G "; 12 July 1783 – 8 August 1858 ), married the 6th Earl of Carlisle and had issue.

File: Thomas Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish. jpg | The Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough, 1787.

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

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The film, directed by Saul Dibb, is based on the biography Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman.

File: Thomas Gainsboroguh Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire 1783. jpg | The Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough, 1783

* Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Amanda Foreman ( 1998 ) ISBN 0-00-655016-9 ( now published as The Duchess )

* Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, Brian Masters, Hamish Hamilton, 1981.

* Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, The Sylph, ed.

An energetic campaign in his favour was run by Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, allegedly a lover of Fox's who was said to have won at least one vote for him by kissing a shoemaker with a rather romantic idea of what constituted a bribe.

* Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire ( 1757 – 1806 )

* In The Duchess ( 2008 ) film, a biography of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Sheridan is played by Aidan McArdle and The School for Scandal is performed in the movie.

Lady Georgiana Spencer married the Duke of Devonshire on her seventeenth birthday: 7 June 1774.

* 1759 – Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ( d. 1824 )

* 1920 – Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

* July 15 – Louisa Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ( b. 1832 )

* March 31 – Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, English Dowager Duchess

** Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle ( d. 1673 )

* Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( 1623 – 1673 ), English aristocrat, writer, and philosopher

Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire DCVO ( born 31 March 1920 ), née The Hon.

In childhood, her younger sisters Jessica Mitford (" Decca ") and Deborah Cavendish, 11th Duchess of Devonshire (" Debo ") were particularly devoted to her.

: See Margaret Cavendish ( 1661 – 1717 ) for the later Duchess of Newcastle of this name.

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( 1623 – 15 December 1673 ) was an English aristocrat, a prolific writer, and a scientist.

Between 1862 and 1892 the villa was rented by the Cavendish family to a number of successive tenants, including the Duchess of Sutherland in 1867, the Prince of Wales in the 1870s, and the Marquess of Bute, patron of the painter William Burgess, from 1881 to 1892.

* 1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English noble ( d. 1707 )

Through the Donne family, many prominent English families are then descended from Owain, including the De Vere family, successive holders of the title Earl of Oxford, and the Cavendish family as Duke of Devonshire.

* August 18 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman ( b. 1640 )

* October 2 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1720 )

* January 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman ( d. 1707 )

* December 14 – William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire ( d. 1811 )

* September 26 – William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire ( d. 1755 )

She married William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire.

They were parents to William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington and two other children.

They split in 1932 when Adele married her first husband, Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish, a son of the Duke of Devonshire.

Bess became famous for her building projects, especially two of them: Chatsworth, now the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire ( whose family name is still " Cavendish ", because they are descended from the children of her second marriage ), and Hardwick Hall, of which it has been said: " Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall ", because of the number and size of its windows.

* William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire was the forebear of the Dukes of Devonshire.

It is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, and has been home to his family, the Cavendish family, since Bess of Hardwick settled at Chatsworth in 1549.