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Elizabeth Cavendish, Countess of Burlington (née Compton; 25 June 1760 – ) was a British heiress.

She was a daughter of Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton and Lady Anne Somerset, eldest daughter of Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort.

Marriage

Portrait of the Children of Lord George Cavendish, 1790, by Sir Thomas Lawrence

On 27 February 1782, she married Lord George Cavendish, a younger son of William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. They had at least eleven children of whom six children survived to adulthood:

• William Cavendish (10 January 1783 – 17 January 1812)
• George Henry Compton Cavendish (14 October 1784 – 22 January 1809)
• Elizabeth Dorothy Cavendish (12 June 1786 - 17 September 1786)
• Lady Anne Cavendish (11 November 1787 – 17 May 1871), married Lord Charles FitzRoy, second son of the 4th Duke of Grafton
• Gen. Hon. Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish (5 November 1789 – 5 April 1873), married Sarah Fawkener, Frances Susan Lambton and Susanna Emma Byerlie
• Elizabeth Cavendish (13 March 1792 - 26 May 1794)
• The Hon. Charles Compton Cavendish (28 August 1793–10 November 1863), created Baron Chesham, married Lady Catherine Gordon, daughter of the 9th Marquess of Huntly
• Mary Louisa Cavendish (6 March 1795 - 7 June 1795)
• Lady Caroline Cavendish (5 April 1797 – 9 January 1867)
• Frederick Compton Cavendish (28 October 1801 - 27 January 1802)
• Charlotte Cavendish (23 April 1803 - 1 July 1803)

References

Works cited

• Hattersley, Roy (2013). The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4481-8227-5.
• Jungnickel, Christa; McCormmach, Russell (1996). Cavendish. American Philosophical Society. ISBN 978-0-87169-220-7.
• Lodge, Edmund (1834). The peerage of the British empire as at present existing. To which is added the baronetage.

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