Cavendish
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Cavendish may refer to:
People
[edit | edit source]- The House of Cavendish, a British aristocratic family
- Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673), British poet, philosopher, and scientist
- Cavendish (author) (1831–1899), pen name of Henry Jones, English author on card games and tennis
- Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), British natural philosopher and scientist
- Mark Cavendish (born 1985), Manx professional road and track cyclist
- Diana Cavendish from Little Witch Academia
- Thomas Cavendish (1560-1592), English sailor who circumnavigated (1586-1588).
Places
[edit | edit source]Australia
[edit | edit source]- County of Cavendish, Queensland
- Cavendish Road, Brisbane, Queensland
- Cavendish, Victoria
Bermuda
[edit | edit source]- Cavendish Tribe, original name of Devonshire Parish, Bermuda
Canada
[edit | edit source]- Cavendish, Alberta
- Cavendish, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Cavendish, a former township, subsequently merged and renamed to form Trent Lakes, Ontario
- Cavendish, Prince Edward Island
- Cavendish Beach, Prince Edward Island
England
[edit | edit source]- Cavendish, Suffolk
- Cavendish Square, London
- Cavendish Bridge
- Cavendish Golf Club, Buxton
- Cavendish Hotel, London
New Zealand
[edit | edit source]- Mount Cavendish, Christchurch
United States
[edit | edit source]- Cavendish, Idaho
- Cavendish, Vermont, a town
- Cavendish (CDP), Vermont, the central village of the town
- Fort Cavendish, Illinois, British name for the captured French Fort de Chartres
Other places
[edit | edit source]- Cavendish (crater), a crater on the Moon
Academic facilities
[edit | edit source]- Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge
- Cavendish School (disambiguation), various schools
- Cavendish Hall, one of the University of Nottingham Halls of Residence
- Cavendish University Zambia, a private university in Lusaka, Zambia
Other uses
[edit | edit source]- Cavendish banana, the dominant commercial variety of banana
- Cavendish tobacco, a process of cutting and curing tobacco
- Cavendish Invitational, high-stakes bridge tournament currently held in Monaco
- Cavendish experiment weighing the Earth
- Cavendish Motor Services, a bus company part-owned by Renown Travel, operating several routes in East Sussex, England
- "Cavendish Foods", a fictional supermarket chain appearing on the British sitcom To the Manor Born
- Cavendish (TV series), a 2019 CBC sitcom set in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada
- Cavendish Farms, Cavendish Agri Services, or Cavendish Produce, subsidiaries of Canadian conglomerate J. D. Irving
- Cavendish's Dikdik (Madoqua kirkii cavendishi), an animal subspecies
See also
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