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Cavendish, Spencer Compton, (1833-1908), 8th Duke of Devonshire, statesman

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Alternative name(s):
  • Devonshire, 9th Duke of (Also known as)
  • Devonshire, 8th Duke of (Also known as)
  • Devonshire (Also known as)
Surname: Cavendish
Forenames: Spencer Compton
Gender: Male
Date: 1833-1908
Title: 8th Duke of Devonshire
Biography: ODNB link for Cavendish, Spencer Compton (1833-1908) 8th Duke of Devonshire, statesman
References: DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P275040 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P128569 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Spencer Compton Cavendish
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1841-1908: corresp and papers
Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth
vol 10
NRA 20594 Cavendish

See Hazlehurst, Whitehead & Woodland, Guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers 1900-1964, 1996
2
1874-85: telegraphic corresp and papers rel to India, Egypt and Asia
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur D 604
NRA 25125 India Office Library
3
1870-1899: corresp rel to Cambridge University
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
See Cambridge University Archives: a Classified List, 1988, p64
4
1887-1904: letters (15) to Aretas Akers-Douglas
Kent History and Library Centre
CKS-U564
NRA 9550
5
1887-1906: corresp with Arthur James Balfour
British Library, Manuscript Collections
ADD MSS 49769-70
6
1886-1903: corresp with AJ and GW Balfour
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD433
NRA 10026 Balfour

See NRA(S)0012
7
1869-87: letters to John Bright
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 43387
8
letters to Sir Owen Burne
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur D 951
NRA 27474
9
1866-88: corresp with Sir Edwin Chadwick
London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
CHADWICK
NRA 21653 Chadwick
10
1882-1902: corresp with Joseph Chamberlain
University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
JC
NRA 12604 Chamberlain
11
1881-1882: corresp with Hugh Childers
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Childers papers
NRA 11163
12
c1874-1893: corresp with Lord Randolph Churchill
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
MS Add.9248
NRA 13273 Churchill
13
1868-70: letters to Lord Clarendon
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Clar dep
NRA 6302
14
1876-86: corresp with Sir Charles Dilke
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 43891
15
1864-80: letters to Benjamin Disraeli
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Disraeli
NRA 842 Disraeli
16
1880-82: corresp with Sir James Fergusson
British Library: Asian and African Studies
MSS Eur E 214
NRA 27479
17
1866-96: corresp with WE Gladstone
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 44143-48
18
1868-1887: corresp with Lord Granville
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Former ref PRO30/29
19
1868-88: corresp with 3rd Earl Grey
Durham University Library and Collections
Grey of Howick collection
NRA 6228 Grey
20
1894-1902: letters to Lord Halsbury
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 56371
NRA 6238 Giffard
21
1880-1904: corresp with Sir Edward Walter Hamilton
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 48613
NRA 20962
22
1864-95: corresp with Sir William Harcourt
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Harcourt
NRA 3679
23
1884-1905: corresp with Sir Michael Hicks-Beach
Gloucestershire Archives
D2440
NRA 3526
24
1864-86: letters to Lord Kimberley
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Eng a 2013-14, b 2047-49, c 3933-4514, d 2439-92, e 2790-97
NRA 1274 Wodehouse
25
1880-1882: letters to Sir Louis Mallet
Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections
NRA 42077 Mallet
26
c1870-80: corresp with Lord O'Hagan
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
D2777
NRA 18813 O'Hagan
27
1870-97: letters (11) to Lord Playfair
Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit
L. Playfair
NRA 11556 Playfair
28
1859-1904: corresp with Lord Ripon
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 43565-69
29
1903: letters to Lord Ritchie
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 53780
NRA 10649
30
1876-93: corresp with Lord Selborne
Lambeth Palace Library
MSS 1866-71 passim
NRA 11918
31
1887-1904: corresp with Lord Selborne
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS Selborne
NRA 17810
32
1887-1907: corresp with John St Loe Strachey
Parliamentary Archives
STR
NRA 19285
33
1860-63: letters (20) to Catherine Walters
Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum
See HMC visit, JRS 1992
34
1882-99: letters (26) to Lord and Lady Wolseley
Hove Library
Wolseley
NRA 10471 Wolseley
35
1871-1908: misc Corresp incl Lord Rosebery
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MSS 10072-130, 10202, 10998 Passim