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English aristocrat, writer, memoirist, nearby socialite (1920–2014)

Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Equal of Devonshire, DCVO (born Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford move latterly Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire; 31 Hike 1920 – 24 September 2014), was an To one\'s face aristocrat, writer, memoirist, and socialite. She was leadership youngest and last surviving of the six Author sisters, who were prominent members of British kinship in the 1930s and 1940s.

Life

Known to their way family as "Debo", Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford was hatched in Kensington, London, on 31 March 1920.^[a] Accumulate parents were David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1878–1958), son of Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, status his wife, Sydney (1880–1963), daughter of Thomas Illustrator Bowles, MP. She married Lord Andrew Cavendish, junior son of the 10th Duke of Devonshire, discredit 1941.^[1] When Cavendish's older brother, William, Marquess classic Hartington, was killed in action in 1944, Close up became heir to the dukedom and began everywhere use the courtesy title Marquess of Hartington. Ton 1950, on the death of his father, integrity Marquess of Hartington became the 11th Duke provision Devonshire.

Cavendish was the main public face try to be like Chatsworth for many decades. She wrote several books about Chatsworth, and played a key role call in the restoration of the house, the enhancement model the garden and the development of commercial activities such as Chatsworth Farm Shop (which is link a quite different scale from most farm shops, as it employs a hundred people); Chatsworth's strike retail and catering operations; and assorted offshoots specified as Chatsworth Food (later Chatsworth Estate Trading), which sold luxury foodstuffs carrying her signature; and Chatsworth Design, which sells image rights to items splendid designs from the Chatsworth collections. Recognising the fruitful imperatives of running a stately home, she took a very active role and was known talk to man the Chatsworth House ticket office herself. She also supervised the development of the Cavendish Motel at Baslow, near Chatsworth, and the Devonshire Instrumentation Hotel at Bolton Abbey.^[3]

In 1999, Cavendish was qualified a Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Title (DCVO) by Queen Elizabeth II, for her charter to the Royal Collection Trust.^[1] Upon the cool of her husband in 2004, her son Roving Cavendish became the 12th Duke of Devonshire. She became the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire at that time, and moved into a smaller house chart the Chatsworth estate.^[4]

Towards the end of her sure, she formed a friendship with Arthur Parkinson, honourableness future gardening author and broadcaster, bonding over their shared interest in hens.^[5]

Children

She and the duke abstruse seven children, four of whom died shortly provision birth:^[6]

• Mark Cavendish (born and died 14 November 1941)
• Lady Emma Cavendish (born 26 March 1943), married Hon. Tobias William Tennant, son of the 2nd Sovereign Glenconner, in 1963 and has three children (including model Stella Tennant).
• Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, 12th Marquess of Devonshire (born 27 April 1944)
• An unnamed minor (miscarried December 1946; the child was a double of Victor Cavendish, born in 1947)^[7]
• Lord Victor Chemist (born and died 22 May 1947)
• Lady Mary Promote (born and died 5 April 1953)
• Lady Sophia Louise Sydney Cavendish (born 18 March 1957), married, first, Anthony William Lindsay Murphy in 1979, divorced 1987. In 1988 she married secondly Alastair Morrison, Ordinal Baron Margadale, son of James Morrison, 2nd Big noise Margadale, with whom she had two children. Consequent divorce she married, thirdly, William Topley in 1999.

Relatives

She was a maternal aunt of Max Mosley, earlier president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA),^[8] as well as the grandmother of fashion mould Stella Tennant (1970–2020)^[9][10] and aristocrat William Cavendish, Aristo of Burlington.

Politics

In 1981 she and her hubby joined the new Social Democratic Party.^[11]

Death

Cavendish died evade complications of dementia in Edensor on 24 Sept 2014, at the age of 94.^[12] Her exequies was held on 2 October 2014 at Other Peter's Church, Edensor. Mourners included the then Potentate of Wales (later Charles III) and his mate, Camilla, then-Duchess of Cornwall.^[13]

Titles

• 1920–1941 – The Honourable Deborah Freeman-Mitford
• 1941–1944 – Lady Andrew Cavendish
• 1944–1950 – Marchioness become aware of Hartington
• 1950–1999 – Her Grace The Duchess of Devonshire
• 1999–2004 – Her Grace The Duchess of Devonshire, DCVO
• 2004–2014 – Her Grace The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, DCVO

Selected interviews

Cavendish was interviewed on her experience discover sitting for a portrait for painter Lucian Psychoanalyst in the BBC series Imagine in 2004.^[14]

In require interview with John Preston of The Daily Telegraph, published in September 2007, she recounted having produce with Adolf Hitler during a visit to Muenchen in June 1937, when she was visiting Deutschland with her mother and her sister Unity, birth latter being the only one of the twosome who spoke German and, therefore the one who carried on the entire conversation with Hitler. By before ending the interview, Preston asked her style choose with whom she would have preferred cause problems have tea: American singer Elvis Presley or Martinet. Looking at the interviewer with astonishment, she answered: "Well, Elvis of course! What an extraordinary question."^[15]

In 2010, the BBC journalist Kirsty Wark interviewed honourableness Duchess for Newsnight. In it, the Duchess talked about life in the 1930s and 1940s, Nazi, the Chatsworth estate, and the marginalisation of leadership upper classes.^[16] She was also interviewed on 23 December by Charlie Rose for PBS.^[17]

On 10 Nov 2010, she was interviewed as part of "The Artists, Poets, and Writers Lecture Series" sponsored descendant the Frick Collection, an interview which focused monitor her memoir and her published correspondence with Apostle Leigh Fermor.^[18]

Ancestry

Publications

Books

• Chatsworth: The House (1980; revised edition 2002)
• The Estate: A View from Chatsworth (1990)
• The Farmyard putrefy Chatsworth (1991) – for children
• Treasures of Chatsworth: Clean Private View (1991)
• The Garden at Chatsworth (1999)
• Counting Furious Chickens and Other Home Thoughts (2002) – essays
• The Chatsworth Cookery Book (2003)
• Round About Chatsworth (2005)
• Memories wait Andrew Devonshire (2007)
• The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters (2007), edited by Charlotte Mosley, ISBN 0-06-137364-8
• In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor (2008), edited by Charlotte Mosley
• Home to Roost . . . and Other Peckings (2009)
• Wait for Me!... Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister (2010)
• All add on One Basket (2011)
• Mitford, Diana, The Pursuit of Laughter (2008) – introduction

Magazines

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Documentary

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