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See also:DEVONSHIRE, EARLS AND See also:DUKES OF . The Devonshire See also:title, now in the See also:Cavendish See also:family, had previously been held by See also:Charles See also:Blount (1563-1606), 8th See also:Lord See also:Mountjoy, See also:great-See also:grandson of the 4th Lord Mountjoy (d. 1534), the See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Erasmus; he was created See also:earl of Devonshire in 1603 for his services in See also:Ireland, where he became famous in subduing the See also:rebellion between 1600 and 1603; but the title became See also:extinct at his See also:death. In the Cavendish See also:line the 1st earl of Devonshire was See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William (d. 1626), second son of See also:Sir William Cavendish (q.v.), and of See also:Elizabeth Hardwick, who afterwards married the 6th earl of See also:Shrewsbury. He was created earl of Devonshire in 1618 by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I., and was succeeded by William, 2nd earl (1591-1628), and the latter by his son William (1617-1684), a prominent royalist, and one of the See also:original members of the Royal Society, who married a daughter of the 2nd earl of See also:Salisbury.
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