Cavendish may refer to:

People

* The House of Cavendish, a British aristocratic family * Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673), British poet, philosopher, and scientist *

Cavendish (author) Henry Jones (2 November 1831 – 10 February 1899) was an English writer under the name "Cavendish", an authority on whist and other card games, tennis and other lawn games. Biography Henry Jones was born in London, the eldest son of surgeon H ...

(1831–1899), pen name of Henry Jones, English author on card games and tennis *

Henry Cavendish Henry Cavendish ( ; 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English natural philosopher and scientist who was an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "infl ...

(1731–1810), British natural philosopher and scientist * Mark Cavendish (born 1985), Manx professional road and track cyclist * Diana Cavendish from Little Witch Academia * Thomas Cavendish (1560-1592), English sailor who

circumnavigated Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon). This article focuses on the circumnavigation of Earth. The first recorded circumnavigation of the Earth was the Mage ...

(1586-1588).

Places

Australia

County of Cavendish The County of Cavendish is a county (a cadastral division) in Queensland, Australia. Like all counties in Queensland, it is a non-functional administrative unit, that is used mainly for the purpose of registering land titles. The county incl ...

, Queensland * Cavendish Road, Brisbane, Queensland * Cavendish, Victoria

Bermuda

* Cavendish Tribe, original name of

Devonshire Parish Devonshire Parish is one of the nine parishes of Bermuda. Originally named ''Cavendish Tribe'' and later Devonshire Tribe, for William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire (1552–1626). ''Devonshire Redoubt'', on Castle Island, one of the Castle H ...

, Bermuda

Canada

Cavendish, Alberta Cavendish is a locality in Alberta, Canada. The locality has the name of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (31 May 18686 May 1938), known as Victor Cavendish until 1908, was a ...

Cavendish, Newfoundland and Labrador Cavendish is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Geography Cavendish is in Newfoundland within Subdivision E of Division No. 1. Cavendish is located on Route 80, off the Rout ...

* Cavendish, a former township, subsequently merged and renamed to form Trent Lakes, Ontario * Cavendish, Prince Edward Island * Cavendish Beach, Prince Edward Island

England

* Cavendish, Suffolk *

Cavendish Square Cavendish Square is a public garden square in Marylebone in the West End of London. It has a double-helix underground commercial car park. Its northern road forms ends of four streets: of Wigmore Street that runs to Portman Square in the mu ...

, London * Cavendish Bridge * Cavendish Golf Club, Buxton

New Zealand

* Mount Cavendish, Christchurch

United States

Cavendish, Idaho Cavendish is an unincorporated community in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States, in the mountains between the towns of Orofino and Kendrick Kendrick may refer to: *Kendrick (name), including a list of people with the surname or given nam ...

* Cavendish, Vermont, a town ** Cavendish (CDP), Vermont, the central village of the town *

Fort Cavendish Fort de Chartres was a French fortification first built in 1720 on the east bank of the Mississippi River in present-day Illinois. It was used as the administrative center for the province, which was part of New France. Due generally to river floo ...

, Illinois, British name for the captured French Fort de Chartres

Other places

Cavendish (crater) Cavendish is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southwest part of the Moon, to the southwest of the larger crater Mersenius. It lies between the smaller craters Henry to the west-northwest and de Gasparis to the east-southeast. The ...

, a crater on the moon

Academic facilities

Cavendish Laboratory The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences. The laboratory was opened in 1874 on the New Museums Site as a laboratory for experimental physics and is name ...

at the University of Cambridge *

Cavendish School (disambiguation) Cavendish School may refer to: *Cavendish School (Eastbourne) The Cavendish School, commonly known as Cavendish School or Cavendish, is a coeducational All-through school with academy status, located in Eastbourne, East Sussex in England for ...

, various schools * Cavendish Hall, one of the University of Nottingham Halls of Residence * Cavendish University Zambia, a private university in Lusaka, Zambia

Other uses

* Cavendish banana, the dominant commercial variety of banana * Cavendish tobacco, a process of cutting and curing tobacco * Cavendish Invitational, high-stakes bridge tournament currently held in Monaco *

Cavendish experiment The Cavendish experiment, performed in 1797–1798 by English scientist Henry Cavendish, was the first experiment to measure the force of gravity between masses in the laboratory and the first to yield accurate values for the gravitational const ...

weighing the Earth *

Cavendish Motor Services Cavendish Motor Services was a bus operator running within the Borough of Eastbourne and the surrounding area such as Polegate and Hailsham. It was the sister company of Renown Coaches of Bexhill. The buses ran in a distinctive green and cream ...

, a bus company part-owned by Renown Travel, operating several routes in East Sussex, England * "Cavendish Foods", a fictional supermarket chain appearing on the British sitcom '' To the Manor Born'' * ''Cavendish'' (TV series), a 2019 CBC sitcom set in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada * Cavendish Agri Services, Cavendish Farms, or Cavendish Produce, subsidiaries of Canadian conglomerate J. D. Irving