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This chapter gives Cavendish and Grey family trees; these are more accurate than any published before.
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The main sources used in developing the family trees are the following. Printed books such as Burke’s, Cokayne’s, and Debrett’s peerages and the Dictionary of National Biography. Online genealogical resources such as “The Peerage.” Wills from the main probate court in England, the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Memorials: for the Cavendish family, a record of dates of death and ages of members of the family interred by custom in All Saints Church in Derby; for the Grey family, photographs taken inside the de Grey Mausoleum in Flitton, Bedfordshire. Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage, 106th ed., ed. C. Mosley, 2 vols. (Crans, Switzerland: Burke’s Peerage, 1999). George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: Extant, Extinct, or Dormant, vols. 1–3 (Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982). Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage, ed. C. Kidd (Richmond, Surrey: Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage, 2008). John Charles Cox and William Henry St. John Hope, The Chronicle of Collegiate Church or Free Chapel of All Saints, Derby (London, 1881). “The Peerage: A Genealogical Survey of the Peerage of Britain as Well as the Royal Families of Europe,” compiled by D. Lundy http://www.thepeerage.com. English Heritage, “The de Grey Mauseleum,” http://www.Bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityandLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Flitton/ThedeGreyMausoleum.aspx. The Cavendish and Grey family trees in this book are improvements of those in Jungnickel and McCormmach, Cavendish (1996) and (1999).
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McCormmach, R. (2014). Cavendish and Grey Family Trees. In: The Personality of Henry Cavendish - A Great Scientist with Extraordinary Peculiarities. Archimedes, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02438-7_12
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