[3] In 1753, he inherited Holker Hall (then in Lancashire) from his maternal cousin Sir William Lowther, 3rd Baronet.
[5] He entered Parliament in 1751 for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, and in 1754, took up the family seat of Derbyshire, which he occupied, with one interruption, until his death forty years later.
[6] Cavendish died suddenly in May 1794 while returning to London from Holker Hall.
[7] On his death, Holker passed in turn to his younger brothers.
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