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Lady Sophia Louise Sydney Topley (née Cavendish; born 18 March 1957) is the third child and second surviving daughter of the 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife Deborah (née Mitford). She is the younger sister of the present duke, Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire.
Lady Sophia Louise Sydney Topley (née Cavendish; born 18 March 1957) is the third child and second surviving daughter of the 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife Deborah (née Mitford). She is the younger sister of the present duke, Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire.
23 de nov. de 2023 · As the South Korean state visit prompts widespread Hallyu in London, Lady Sophia Topley explores our ever-growing infatuation with the country that spawned Gangnam Style from Tatler’s November 2022 issue.
7 de mai. de 2021 · Nancy Morrison is the eldest daughter of Lady Sophia Topley (née Cavendish) and granddaughter of the youngest Mitford sister, Deborah, the late Duchess of Devonshire. The 26-year-old fashion enthusiast certainly takes after her grandmother’s impeccable sense of style.
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Cavendish was the second son of Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire and Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, the former Mary Alice Gascoyne-Cecil, daughter of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury. He was educated at Ludgrove School, Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Growing up, his elder brother, William Cavendish, Mar...
Military service
Cavendish served in the British Army during World War II. Having attended an Officer Cadet Training Unit, he was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards as a second lieutenant on 2 November 1940. On 7 December 1944, while holding the rank of acting captain, he was awarded the Military Cross 'in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy'. The action took place on 27 July 1944 when his company was cut off for 36 hours in heavy combat near Strada, Italy. He held the rank of majo...
Political career
Cavendish, now styled as Marquess of Hartington, ran unsuccessfully as a National Liberal candidate for Chesterfield in the 1945 general election and as a Conservative for the same seat in 1950. He succeeded as 11th Duke of Devonshire in November 1950, and served as Mayor of Buxton from 1952 to 1954. Devonshire served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Commonwealth Relations from 1960 to 1962, Minister of State at the Commonwealth Relations Office from 1962 to 1963, and for Colonial Affairs...
Other pursuits
The duke followed the family tradition of owning racehorses, the most famous of which was Park Top, the subject of the duke's first published book, A Romance of The Turf: Park Top, which was published in 1976. His autobiography, Accidents of Fortune, was published just before his death in 2004. The duke had many disputes over the years with the ramblers who used the paths near Chatsworth. Eventually though, in 1991, he signed an agreement with the Peak National Park Authority opening 1,300 ac...
Marriage
In 1941, the then Lord Andrew Cavendish married The Honourable Deborah Freeman-Mitford (31 March 1920 – 24 September 2014), youngest daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale and one of the Mitford sisters, in the Priory Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield, London. Four of the couple's seven children died soon after birth, and the Duke's extramarital affairs became public after he appeared as a witness at a burglary trial and was forced to admit, under oath, that he wa...
Issue
Devonshire and his wife had seven children, three of whom died in infancy. The three surviving children were a son, Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, and two daughters, Lady Emma Cavendish and Lady Sophia Topley. 1. Mark Cavendish (born and died 14 November 1941) 2. Lady Emma Cavendish (born 26 March 1943); married Hon. Tobias Tennant, son of Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner on 3 September 1963. They have three children (including Stella Tennant) and ten grandchildre...
Inheritance
Devonshire's older brother William, Marquess of Hartington, who would have inherited the dukedom, was killed in combat near the end of the Second World War. With William's death, Andrew became heir and received the courtesy title of Marquessof Hartington, by which he was known from September 1944 until November 1950. Devonshire's uncle, Lord Charles Cavendish, died aged 38 as a result of alcoholism. Lord Charles's will bequeathed Lismore Castle to Andrew upon the remarriage of Charles's wife,...
In 1996 he was made a Knight Companion of the Garter. He was elected to the American Philosophical Societylater that year. On 10 December 1955, he was made a Grand Cross of the Order of Christ by the Portuguesegovernment.
writing as The Duke of Devonshire: A Romance of the Turf: Park Top (2000 edition ISBN 0-7195-5482-9)writing as Andrew Devonshire: Accidents of Fortune [Autobiography] (2004) ISBN 0-85955-286-1Generations Reaching – on a chance meeting with the late 11th Duke of Devonshire, and with Kathleen Agnes Kennedy and John F. Kennedy beside Lismore Castle, County Waterford, Ireland in mid-May 2004.Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Duke of DevonshireLady Sophia Louise Sydney Cavendish (born 18 March 1957), married, firstly, Anthony William Lindsay Murphy in 1979, divorced 1987. In 1988 she married secondly Alastair Morrison, 3rd Baron Margadale , son of James Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale , with whom she had two children.
26 de out. de 2023 · Sophia Topley. noblewoman; born 1957; youngest child of Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, and Hon. Deborah Mitford. Sophia Louise Sydney Cavendish.
