The Henson Journals

9th Duke of Devonshire, Victor Christian William Cavendish

Victor Cavendish (1868-1938; ODNB), 9th Duke of Devonshire (1908). MP (LU) West Derbyshire, 1891-1908; free trader; treasurer of the royal household, 1900-3; financial secretary to the Treasury, 1903-5; president, Navy League, 1909; member, Archbishops' Committee on Church and State, 1913-16; civil lord of the Admiralty, 1915-16; governor-general of Canada, 1916-21; secretary of state for the Colonies, 1922-4.

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See also Cavendish [née Petty-FitzMaurice], Evelyn; Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, Spencer Compton