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Henry Anson Cavendish, 4th Baron Waterpark (14 April 1839 – 3 August 1912), was a British aristocrat and sportsman.

Early life

Cavendish was born on 14 April 1839. He was the son of Henry Cavendish, 3rd Baron Waterpark, a member of parliament, and his wife, the Honourable Elizabeth Jane Anson, daughter of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson.

He was educated at Harrow School and afterwards left Britain to study French and German.

Career

On his return to Britain he entered the Foreign Office and remained there until the death of the 3rd Baron on 31 March 1863, on which the bulk of the 3rd Baron's estate passed to the new 4th Baron, his only son.

As a sportsman, Lord Waterpark travelled to India in 1868, where he hunted big game, and to Canada and the United States in 1869, fishing in a salmon river in Labrador and (with George Armstrong Custer, among others) hunting buffalo and other big game in the United States, including in the Rocky Mountains.

In 1872, he became Master of the Meynell Hunt in Derbyshire. Lord Waterpark was commissioned as a cornet in the Uttoxeter Troop of the part-time Staffordshire Yeomanry cavalry on 23 January 1863, and was promited to lieutenant on 9 June 1866 and to captain on 28 June 1871. and was a magistrate for that county and a Deputy Lieutenant of Derbyshire. In 1899 he became chairman of Derbyshire County Council, for two years.

Personal life

In 1873, Lord Waterpark married Emily Stenning, baptised 30 March 1845 in Godalming, Surrey, and they had five children:

• Mary (29 December 1873 – 15 May 1967)
• Henry Anson (3 March 1875 – 22 October 1897)
• Winifred (2 April or 26 June 1880 – 8 December 1971)
• Norah Lilian (27 October 1881 – 12 February 1932)
• Charles Frederick, 5th Baron Waterpark (11 May 1883 – 27 January 1932).

Lord Waterpark died on 3 August 1912 and was succeeded in his titles and estate by his surviving son, Charles Frederick Cavendish, who became the 5th Baron Waterpark.

References

1. ^ Lodge, Edmund (1890). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire As at Present Existing: Arranged and Printed from the Personal Communications of the Nobility: Under the Gracious Patronage of the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty (59th ed.). London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd. p. 622.
2. Lundy, Darryl (8 May 2011). "Henry Manners Cavendish, 3rd Baron Waterpark". The Peerage.
3. ^ Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes. Vol. 25. London: A.H. Baily & Co. 1874. p. 2.
4. Fisher, D. R. (2009). "CAVENDISH, see Henry Manners, Henry Manners, 3rd Bar. Waterpark [I] (1793–1863), of Doveridge Hall, Derbys". The History of Parliament: British Political, Social, and Local History.
5. Dippie, Brian W., ed. (1980). Nomad: George A. Custer in Turf, Field and Farm. Austin: University of Texas Press.
6. Capt P.C.G. Webster, The Records of the Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry, Lichfield: Lomax, 1870; Appendix.
7. Henry Bathurst, The Auxiliary Forces List: Staffordshire-Warwickshire-Worcestershire, Leamington: Bathurst, 1876, p. 24.
8. "Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry". Birmingham Daily Post. 3 June 1872.
9. ^ Lundy, Darryl (8 May 2011). "Henry Anson Cavendish, 4th Baron Waterpark". The Peerage.
10. Randall, J. L. (15 September 2017). A History of the Meynell Hounds and Country – 1780 to 1901. Read Books Limited. p. 4. ISBN 9781473341975. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
11. "London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1917 for Emily Stenning". Ancestry.com.
12. "Mary Borwick in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007". Ancestry.com.
13. "Surrey, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813–1912 for Winifred Cavendish". Ancestry.com.
14. "Surrey, England Church of England Baptisms 1813–1912 for Henry Anson Cavendish". Ancestry.com.
15. "Births, Marriages, Deaths". Derby Daily Telegraph and Derby Daily Express. 13 February 1932.

• 1839 births
• 1912 deaths
• People educated at Harrow School
• Barons in the Peerage of Ireland
• Staffordshire Yeomanry officers