n sufferings and common triumphs, received on the same
day the highest honour which it is in the power of the crown to confer."
His last public service was assisting to conclude the union with
Scotland, for negotiating which he and his eldest son, the marquis of
Hartington, had been appointed among the commissioners by Queen Anne. He
died on the 18th of August 1707, and ordered the following inscription
to be put on his monument:-

Willielmus Dux Devon,
Bonorum Principum Fidelis Subditus,
Inimicus et Invisus Tyrannis.

He had married in 1661 the daughter of James, duke of Ormonde, and he
was succeeded by his eldest son William as 2nd duke, and by the latter's
son William as 3rd duke (viceroy of Ireland, 1737-1744). The latter's
son William (1720-1764) succeeded in 1755 as 4th duke; he married the
daughter and heiress of Richard Boyle, earl of Burlington and Cork, who
brought Lismore Castle and the Irish estates into the family; and from
November 1756 to May 1757 he was prime minister, mainly in order that
Pitt, who would not then serve under the duke of Newcastle, should be in
power. His son William (1748-1811), 5th duke, is memorable as the
husband of the beautiful Georgiana Spencer, duchess of Devonshire
(1757-1806), and of the intellectual Elizabeth Foster, duchess of
Devonshire (1758-1824), both of whom Gainsborough painted. His son
William, 6th duke (1790-1858), who died unmarried, was sent on a special
mission to the coronation of the tsar Nicholas at Moscow in 1826, and
became famous for his expenditure on that occasion; and it was he who
employed Sir Joseph Paxton at Chatsworth. The title passed in 1858 to
his cousin William (1808-1891), 2nd earl of Burlington, as 7th duke, a
man who, without playing a prominent part in public affairs, exercised
great influence, not only by his position but by his distinguished
abilities. At Cambridge in 1829 he was second wrangler, first Smith's
prizeman, and eighth classic, and subsequently he became chancellor of
the university.

SPENCER COMPTON CAVENDISH, 8th duke (1833-1908), born on the 23rd of
July 1833, was the son of the 7th duke (then earl of Burlington) and his
wife Lady Blanche Howard (sister of the earl of Carlisle). In 1854 Lord
Cavendish, as he then was, took his degree at Trinity College,
Cambridge; in 1856 he was attached to the special mission to Russia for
the new tsar's accession; and in 18