Lord Cavendish owns Holker Hall and its 17,000 acre estate overlooking Morecambe Bay in Cumbria.

[citation needed] Educated at Eton College, he was created a life peer as Baron Cavendish of Furness, of Cartmel in the County of Cumbria,[1] on the advice of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on 17 May 1990 and served as a lord-in-waiting (1990–92).

Cavendish is the chairman of the Holker Estate Group[3] and has chaired the Morecambe and Lonsdale Conservative Association (1975–78) and the board of governors of St Anne's School, Windermere (1983–89).

He became president of the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain in 2008.

1947), granddaughter of Sir William Lindsay Murphy, who served as British Governor of the Bahamas.