Cavendish

Cavendish may refer to:

People

• The House of Cavendish, a British noble family
• Henry Jones (writer) (1831–99), pen name "Cavendish", English author on card games and tennis
• Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), British natural philosopher and scientist
• Mark Cavendish (born 1985), British cyclist

Places

Australia

• County of Cavendish, 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 Square, London
• Cavendish Bridge

New Zealand

• Mount Cavendish, Christchurch

United States

• Cavendish, Idaho
• Cavendish, Vermont
• Fort Cavendish, Illinois, British name for the captured French Fort de Chartres

Other places

• Cavendish (crater), a crater on the moon

Academic facilities

• Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge
• Cavendish School (disambiguation), various schools
• Cavendish Hall, one of the University of Nottingham Halls of Residence

Other uses

• Cavendish banana, the dominant commercial variety of banana
• Cavendish tobacco, a process of cutting and curing tobacco
• Cavendish Invitational, high-stakes bridge tournament in Las Vegas
• Cavendish experiment weighing the Earth
• Cavendish Motor Services, 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
• James Cavendish, a fictional character in Stranger in a Strange Land

See also

• All pages beginning with "Cavendish"
• All pages with titles containing "Cavendish"