He also served in World War II and was commanding the HMS Devonshire, a heavy cruiser, on 21 November 1941 when he was informed that codebreakers had determined that German U-boats were going to be surfacing near him, to refuel from a merchant raider, the Hilfskreuzer ( cruiser ) Atlantis.

Three days later, a heavy bombardment preceded an attack by a German force directed against the 2nd Manchesters and the Devonshire Regiment.

* November 22 – WWII: HMS Devonshire sinks commerce raiding hilfskreuzer Atlantis, ending the longest warship cruise of the war.

Using the intelligence, Devonshire sunk Atlantis.

In the summer of the year 1797, the Author, then in ill health, had retired to a lonely farm house between Porlock and Linton, on the Exmoor confines of Somerset and Devonshire.

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.

* Naturalist Rambles on the Devonshire Coast ( 1853 ).

The Royal Family and the beleaguered and demoralized Norwegian Government was evacuated from Tromsø on 7 June aboard HMS Devonshire ; and after a dash, under cover of HMS Glorious, HMS Acasta, and HMS Ardent, safely arrived in London.

It also runs the Devonshire Arms Hotel and the Devonshire Fell Hotel & Bistro on the Bolton Abbey estate and owns the Cavendish Hotel at Baslow on the edge of Chatsworth Park, which is let to a tenant.

Macmillan married Lady Dorothy Cavendish, the daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire, on 21 April 1920.

MiniMed located on a parcel of land once known as Devonshire Downs.

At Chatsworth House on 16 January 1901, Chamberlain and Devonshire made it known to Eckardstein that they still planned to make Britain part of the Triple Alliance.

But when Balfour explained his fiscal policy on 1 October, Devonshire re-submitted his resignation.

The building was architecturally adventurous, drawing on Paxton's experience designing greenhouses for the sixth Duke of Devonshire.

The proposal – backed by William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, Richard Arkwright junior, and several Manchester bankers – was ambitious ; it was expected that steam locomotives would be used on the line, even though the technology was in its infancy and George Stephenson did not build his revolutionary Rocket until 1829.

Devonshire married Charlotte Boyle, 6th Baroness Clifford, daughter of the famous architect Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington ( on whose death in 1753 the earldom of Burlington became extinct ).

These possessions consisted of most of Cornwall, as well as parts of Devonshire in the south-west, land in Berkshire and Oxfordshire centred on the honour of Wallingford, most of the eastern part of Lincolnshire, and the honour of Knaresborough in Yorkshire, with the territories that belonged to it.

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

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

On May 9, 1932, after a successful stint with Fred in the revue The Band Wagon ( 1931 ) on Broadway, Adele Astaire retired from the stage to marry Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish, the second son of the 9th Duke of Devonshire, and moved to Ireland, where they lived at Lismore Castle.

In his book, The Mobius Strip, he models the fictional New Devonshire on Yorktown.

In 1778, the decision was taken by the fifth Duke of Devonshire, on the advice of his gardener Samuel Lapidge, to make alterations to the gardens.

They sailed from Devonshire, England, on the ship Desire, arriving in Philadelphia on June 23, 1686.

Baily died at 99 Devonshire Road, Holloway on 22 May 1867 and is buried in London's Highgate Cemetery.

Well dressing was celebrated in only one or two villages in Derbyshire by the 19th century, and in Buxton it wasn't introduced until 1840, " to commemorate the beneficence of the Duke of Devonshire who, at his own expense, made arrangements for supplying the Upper Town, which had been much inconvenienced by the distance to St Anne's well on the Wye, with a fountain of excellent water within easy reach of all ".

Sir Francis Richard Grey ( 31 March 1813 – 22 March 1890 ) married Lady Elizabeth Howard ( 1816 – 1891 ), daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle and Georgiana Cavendish ( daughter of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ).

The Duke of Manchester died at Naples on the 22 March 1890, and on the 16 August 1892 at Christ Church, Mayfair, the sixty-year-old Dowager Duchess of Manchester married the 8th Duke of Devonshire, who had been in love with her for years.

As part of the preparation for this, the regiment moved from the Prince of Wales ' Division to the Light Division, and was renamed the Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry, on 22 July 2005.

On 8 November 1766, Portland married Dorothy Cavendish, a daughter of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire and Charlotte Boyle.

Devonshire was given the Garter and appointed First Lord of the Treasury ( most historians consider him Prime Minister during this service ) in November 1756, and he served as First Lord until May 1757 in an administration effectively run by William Pitt.

* 24 March 190811 November 1916: His Grace the Duke of Devonshire

* 11 November 191619 September 1918: His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of the Militia and Naval Forces of Canada

Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, KG, MBE, TD ( 6 May 1895 – 26 November 1950 ), known as Marquess of Hartington ( 1908 – 1938 ), was the head of the Devonshire branch of the Cavendish family.

In November 1756 Temple became First Lord of the Admiralty in the ministry of Devonshire and Pitt.

Newcastle was widely blamed for Britain's poor start to the Seven Years War and in November 1756 he was replaced by the Duke of Devonshire.

Between 16 November 1756 and 25 June 1757, The Duke of Devonshire replaced Newcastle as Prime Minister, although Pitt is widely credited as the main influence on policy.

Edgar Dewdney, PC ( November 5, 1835 – August 8, 1916 ) was a Canadian politician born in Devonshire, England.

** 20th ( East Devonshire ) Regiment of Foot ( from November 1812 )

According to the Duchess of Devonshire, who travelled with the British delegation to Kennedy's funeral in November 1963, Macmillan's successor as Prime Minister, Alec Douglas-Home, had wanted to appoint Ormsby-Gore as Foreign Secretary, but R. A. Butler had insisted on having this post as a condition of serving under Home.

However, on 24 November 2005 it was announced that after discussions between The Light Infantry and the RGJ, the two would be merged with the Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry and Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry ( RGBW ) by the end of 2007 to form a single large regiment to be called The Rifles.

In the end, the two aforementioned Dukes became the first to achieve this, Joseph Paxton ( for the Duke of Devonshire ) being the first in November 1849 by replicating the lily's warm swampy habitat ( not easy in winter in England with only coal-fired boilers for heating ),

They drove the rebels from Cornwall, after which they raised a small force for general service and invaded Devonshire in November 1642.

On 24 November 2005, in a change to the planned amalgamations, it was announced by the Ministry of Defence that, after discussions between The Light Infantry, the Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry, the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry and the Royal Green Jackets, the four regiments would amalgamate to form a single, large regiment to be named The Rifles.

* William Cavendish, 4th Earl of Devonshire, November 1690 – 18 August 1707 ( created Duke of Devonshire 12 May 1694 )

* William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire, 13 November 1707 – 19 May 1711

A post-mortem examination of Cook's body took place at the Talbot Arms on 26 November, carried out by medical student Charles Devonshire and assistant Charles Newton, and overseen by Dr Harland and numerous other onlookers.

* William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire 13 November 1638 – 1684

* William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire 6 November 1707 – 1710