Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, KG, MC, PC, DL, was a British Conservative and later Social Democratic Party politician. Cavendish ran unsuccessfully as a National Liberal candidate for Chesterfield in the 1945 general election and as a Conservative for the same seat in 1950. In 2004, he was listed at number 73 in the Sunday Times Rich List of richest people in Great Britain.
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Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, KG, MC, PC, DL, was a British Conservative and later Social Democratic Party politician. He was a minister in the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan but is best known for opening Chatsworth House to the public. His sister-in-law was Kathleen Kennedy, sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and U. S. Senators, Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy. Cavendish ran unsuccessfully as a National Liberal candidate for Chesterfield in the 1945 general election and as a Conservative for the same seat in 1950. In later life, he took on a number of honorary positions within the military. The duke followed the family tradition of owning racehorses, the most famous of which was Park Top, the subject of the duke’s first published book, A Romance of The Turf: Park Top.
His autobiography, Accidents of Fortune, was published just before his death in 2004. In 2004, he was listed at number 73 in the Sunday Times Rich List of richest people in Great Britain. The Duke, however, claimed that his success was due to his tolerance of women when the crime occurred at his home in London. Three of the couple’s six children died soon after birth, and the Duke’s extramarital affairs became public after he appeared as a witness at a burglary trial and was forced to admit, under oath, that he was on holiday.
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