The Right Hon. William George, Baron Chesham, of Chesham, Bucks, J.P. and D.L., died at his seat, Latimer, on the 26th ult. He was born Oct. 20, 1815, the only son of the Hon. Charles Compton Cavendish (uncle of the present Duke of Devonshire), who was created a peer as Baron Chesham, Jan. 15, 1858. The late Lord's mother was Lady Catherine Susan Gordon, eldest daughter of George, ninth Marquis of Huntly. His Lordship, educated at Eton, served in early life, from 1833 to 1840, in the 10th Hussars, and sat in the House of Commons, on the Liberal interest, as member for Peterborough in 1847, and for Bucks from 1857 to 1863; when, at the death of his father, he succeeded to the peerage. He married, July 24, 1849, Henrietta Frances, daughter of the Right Hon. William S. S. Lascelles, M.P., by Lady Caroline, his wife, daughter of George, sixth Earl of Carlisle, and leaves three surviving sons and three daughters. Of the latter, the eldest is Countess of Leicester; the second, Lady Lyttelton; and the third, the Hon. Katherine Caroline Cavendish, whose approaching marriage to the Duke of Westminster is announced. The eldest son, Charles Compton William, now third Lord Chesham, late Captain in the Army, was born in 1850, and is married to Lady Beatrice Constance Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster's second daughter.
Source: The Illustrated London News, July 8, 1882, p.50