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He had a relationship with Lady Anne de Grey.


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  1. Henry Cavendish  1731-1810


Notes about Lord Charles Cavendish Scientific research see notes

Scientific research
In 1757 the Royal Society (of which he was vice-president) awarded him the Copley Medal for his work in the development of thermometers which recorded the maximum and minimum temperatures they had reached.

Charles Cavendish was also one of the early experimenters with the electrical storage device, the Leyden jar, which came to England in 1746. His interest in electrical research was passed on to his son Henry who was also a prominent member of the Royal Society. Henry Cavendish was even better known than his father for electrical experiments, and also for other discoveries in physics, including the famous torsion-balance measurement of the mass of the earth.

One of Charles Cavendish's experiments with electricity appears to have been an attempt to replicate the plasma glow seen during the early Francis Hauksbee experiment with a semi-vacuum in the friction-generator's glass globe. A recent thesis on plasma arcs mentions Priestley's account of a replication of this by the experimenter Benjamin Wilson (1721–1788):

In 1759, when Wilson repeated experiments "first contrived by Lord Charles Cavendish," he observed a "singular appearance of light upon one of the surfaces of the quicksilver," (from The History and Present State of Electricity, J Priestly (1775) vol. I, p. 355). The quicksilver (mercury) was part of the evacuation scheme, and it is not clear, but possible, that Wilson was referring to a cathode spot on mercury. wiki

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Lord Charles Cavendish

William Cavendish
1640-1707
Lady Mary Butler
1646-1710
William Russell
1639-1683
Rachel Wriothesley
1636-1723

Lord Charles Cavendish
1704-1783


Lady Anne de Grey
????-1733

Henry Cavendish
1731-1810

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    Birthday March 17, 1704

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      Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
    • In the year 1704: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 25 » The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
      • February 29 » Queen Anne's War: French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive.
      • April 24 » The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
      • August 4 » War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
      • August 13 » War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim: English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.
      • December 6 » Battle of Chamkaur: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.

    Day of death April 28, 1783

    • The temperature on April 28, 1783 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: helder. Source: KNMI
    • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
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      • May 18 » First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John, New Brunswick), Canada, after leaving the United States.
      • June 8 » Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
      • July 24 » The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
      • October 15 » The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
      • November 3 » The American Continental Army is disbanded.
      • December 4 » At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington bids farewell to his officers.
    

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