Cavendish Lord Frederick Charles

Cavendish, Lord Frederick Charles, second son of the seventh Duke of Devonshire, was born in 1836, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1858. Becoming private secretary to Lord Granville in 1859, he was returned in 1865 for the West Riding of Yorkshire, which he represented until his death. He succeeded Mr. Forster as Chief Secretary for Ireland, but a few days after his appointment in 1882, he, with Mr. Burke, an assistant secretary, was murdered by the "Invincibles."