Cavendish, Spencer Compton, (1833-1908), 8th Duke of Devonshire, statesman

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Alternative name(s):	Devonshire, 9th Duke of (Also known as) Devonshire, 8th Duke of (Also known as) Devonshire (Also known as)
Surname:	Cavendish
Forenames:	Spencer Compton
Gender:	Male
Date:	1833-1908
Title:	8th Duke of Devonshire
Biography:	ODNB link for Cavendish, Spencer Compton (1833-1908) 8th Duke of Devonshire, statesman
References:	DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P275040 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P128569 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Spencer Compton Cavendish

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1841-1908: corresp and papers	Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth	vol 10	NRA 20594 Cavendish See Hazlehurst, Whitehead & Woodland, Guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers 1900-1964, 1996
2	1874-85: telegraphic corresp and papers rel to India, Egypt and Asia	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur D 604	NRA 25125 India Office Library
3	1870-1899: corresp rel to Cambridge University	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives		See Cambridge University Archives: a Classified List, 1988, p64
4	1887-1904: letters (15) to Aretas Akers-Douglas	Kent History and Library Centre	CKS-U564	NRA 9550
5	1887-1906: corresp with Arthur James Balfour	British Library, Manuscript Collections	ADD MSS 49769-70
6	1886-1903: corresp with AJ and GW Balfour	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD433	NRA 10026 Balfour See NRA(S)0012
7	1869-87: letters to John Bright	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 43387
8	letters to Sir Owen Burne	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur D 951	NRA 27474
9	1866-88: corresp with Sir Edwin Chadwick	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	CHADWICK	NRA 21653 Chadwick
10	1882-1902: corresp with Joseph Chamberlain	University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections	JC	NRA 12604 Chamberlain
11	1881-1882: corresp with Hugh Childers	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	Childers papers	NRA 11163
12	c1874-1893: corresp with Lord Randolph Churchill	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	MS Add.9248	NRA 13273 Churchill
13	1868-70: letters to Lord Clarendon	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Clar dep	NRA 6302
14	1876-86: corresp with Sir Charles Dilke	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 43891
15	1864-80: letters to Benjamin Disraeli	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Disraeli	NRA 842 Disraeli
16	1880-82: corresp with Sir James Fergusson	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur E 214	NRA 27479
17	1866-96: corresp with WE Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 44143-48
18	1868-1887: corresp with Lord Granville	British Library, Manuscript Collections		See Former ref PRO30/29
19	1868-88: corresp with 3rd Earl Grey	Durham University Library and Collections	Grey of Howick collection	NRA 6228 Grey
20	1894-1902: letters to Lord Halsbury	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 56371	NRA 6238 Giffard
21	1880-1904: corresp with Sir Edward Walter Hamilton	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 48613	NRA 20962
22	1864-95: corresp with Sir William Harcourt	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Harcourt	NRA 3679
23	1884-1905: corresp with Sir Michael Hicks-Beach	Gloucestershire Archives	D2440	NRA 3526
24	1864-86: letters to Lord Kimberley	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng a 2013-14, b 2047-49, c 3933-4514, d 2439-92, e 2790-97	NRA 1274 Wodehouse
25	1880-1882: letters to Sir Louis Mallet	Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections		NRA 42077 Mallet
26	c1870-80: corresp with Lord O'Hagan	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D2777	NRA 18813 O'Hagan
27	1870-97: letters (11) to Lord Playfair	Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit	L. Playfair	NRA 11556 Playfair
28	1859-1904: corresp with Lord Ripon	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 43565-69
29	1903: letters to Lord Ritchie	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 53780	NRA 10649
30	1876-93: corresp with Lord Selborne	Lambeth Palace Library	MSS 1866-71 passim	NRA 11918
31	1887-1904: corresp with Lord Selborne	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Selborne	NRA 17810
32	1887-1907: corresp with John St Loe Strachey	Parliamentary Archives	STR	NRA 19285
33	1860-63: letters (20) to Catherine Walters	Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum		See HMC visit, JRS 1992
34	1882-99: letters (26) to Lord and Lady Wolseley	Hove Library	Wolseley	NRA 10471 Wolseley
35	1871-1908: misc Corresp incl Lord Rosebery	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 10072-130, 10202, 10998 Passim