Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish (5 November 1789 – 5 April 1873) was a British Army officer, politician and courtier.
[2] Cavendish was born in Westminster, the third son of George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington and Lady Elizabeth Compton, daughter and heiress of the 7th Earl of Northampton.
[3] He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 10th Dragoons in 1808 and was deployed to Spain and was wounded at the Battle of Corunna in January 1809 during the Peninsular War.
[3] In 1837, he was appointed Chief Equerry and Clerk Marshal to Queen Victoria,[3] but resigned the post in 1841.
On 2 June 1853 he was appointed colonel of The Queen's Bays, a post he held until his death.