William Cavendish, first duke of Newcastle

(1593-1676)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Newcastle, William Cavendish, duke of, 1592-1676 NRA: Cavendish William (1592-1676) 1st Duke of Newcastle General DNB: Cavendish, William, first duke of Newcastle upon Tyne (bap. 1593, d. 1676), writer, patron, and royalist army officer LBT ID: DuNewca1b VIAF ID: 29550101 LOC ID: n79144652	B/BAP: 1593-12-16 DIED: 1676-12-25
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He was a poet, disciple and patron of Ben Jonson, a Royalist military officer, and the husband of Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle.
REFERENCES TO William Cavendish, first duke of Newcastle: Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 20 December 1831 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 11 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward III William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XXII Found 1: ¶ 10