Cavendish may refer to:

People

* The

House of Cavendish The Cavendish (or de Cavendish) family ( ; ) is a British Nobility, noble family, of Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Norman origins (though with an Old English, Anglo-Saxon name, originally from a place-name in Suffolk). They rose to their highest prominen ...

, a British aristocratic family * Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673), British poet, philosopher, and scientist * Cavendish (author) (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 experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable a ...

(1731–1810), British natural philosopher and scientist *

Mark Cavendish Sir Mark Simon Cavendish (born 21 May 1985) is a Manx people, Manx retired professional cyclist. As a Track cycling, track cyclist he specialised in the Madison (cycling), madison, points race, and scratch race disciplines; as a road racer he ...

(born 1985), Manx professional road and track cyclist * Diana Cavendish from

Little Witch Academia is a Japanese anime franchise created by Yoh Yoshinari and produced by Trigger. The original short film, directed by Yoshinari and written by Masahiko Otsuka, was released in theaters in March 2013 as part of the Young Animator T ...

* Thomas Cavendish (1560-1592), English sailor who circumnavigated (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, Bermuda

Canada

* Cavendish, Alberta * Cavendish, Newfoundland and Labrador * 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 is a village and civil parish in the Stour Valley in Suffolk, England. Toponymy Toponymists agree that Cavendish is called so because a man called Cafa once owned an ''eddish'' (pasture for aftermath) here. Keith Briggs and Kelly ...

Cavendish Square Cavendish Square is a public square, 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 ...

, 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. Cavendish contains an elementary school (Cavendish-Teakean Elementary School), a cemetery, and a pa ...

Cavendish, Vermont Cavendish is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The town was likely named after William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. The population was 1,392 at the 2020 census. The town of Cavendish includes the unincorporated villages of ...

, a town **

Cavendish (CDP), Vermont Cavendish is a census-designated place, the central village of the town of Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. Until the midnineteenth century it was known as Duttonsville. As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 17 ...

, 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 flo ...

, 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 r ...

, 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 named ...

at the University of Cambridge *

Cavendish School (disambiguation) Cavendish School may refer to: * Cavendish School (Eastbourne) * Cavendish School (Hemel Hempstead) {{schooldis ...

, various schools * Cavendish Hall, one of the

University of Nottingham Halls of Residence This is a list of dormitory, halls of residence on the various campuses of the University of Nottingham in Nottingham, England. The University of Nottingham has a particularly well developed system of halls located on its campus. The halls ac ...

Cavendish University Zambia Cavendish University Zambia (CUZ) is a private university located in Lusaka, Zambia. It was opened in 2004 as a subsidiary of Cavendish College London and is the first private university to operate in Zambia. The university is registered with t ...

, a private university in Lusaka, Zambia

Other uses

Cavendish banana Cavendish bananas are the fruits of one of a number of banana cultivars belonging to the Cavendish subgroup of the List of banana cultivars#AAA Group, AAA banana cultivar group (triploid cultivars of ''Musa acuminata''). The same term is also use ...

, 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 cons ...

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 c ...

, 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 Farms, Cavendish Agri Services, or Cavendish Produce, subsidiaries of Canadian conglomerate J. D. Irving * Cavendish's Dikdik (''Madoqua kirkii cavendishi''), an animal subspecies