The Baroness Waterpark
Personal details
Born
Sarah Bradshaw

(1740-08-01)1 August 1740
Died4 August 1807(1807-08-04) (aged 67)
Spouse
(m. 1757; died 1804)
Children8, including Richard, George, Augustus
Parent(s)Richard Bradshaw
Deborah Thompson Bradshaw

Sarah Cavendish, 1st Baroness Waterpark (née Bradshaw; 1 August 1740 – 4 August 1807), was an Anglo-Irish peeress.

Early life

Sarah was born on 1 August 1740. She was the only daughter, and heiress, of Richard Bradshaw and his wife Deborah Bradshaw (née Thompson), a daughter of William Thompson of Cork.[1]

Peerage

On 15 June 1792, she was created Baroness Waterpark in the Peerage of Ireland, in her own right, by King George III with remainder to the heirs male of her body by Henry Cavendish.[2] The title was created in honour of her husband, but in such a way that would enable him to continue to sit in the Irish House of Commons. He represented Lismore and Killybegs and served as Vice-Treasurer of Ireland and as Receiver-General of Ireland. From 1768 to 1774 he sat in the British House of Commons for Lostwithiel.[1]

Personal life

On 12 August 1757, she married the politician Henry Cavendish (1732–1804),[3] the eldest son of Sir Henry Cavendish, 1st Baronet, and the former Anne Pyne (only daughter of Sir Richard Pyne, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland).[4] Her husband succeeded as the 2nd Cavendish baronet of Doveridge Hall on 31 May 1776. Together, they were the parents of eight children, including:[1]

The Baroness Waterpark died on 4 August 1807 and was succeeded in her title by her eldest son, Richard.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Waterpark, Baron (I, 1792)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  2. "No. 13429". The London Gazette. 23 June 1792. p. 462.
  3. Peter D. G. Thomas, ‘Cavendish, Sir Henry, second baronet (1732–1804)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 21 Aug 2011.
  4. The Present Peerage of the United Kingdom ... John Stockdale. 1821. p. 145. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  5. Lodge, Edmund (1834). The Peerage of the British Empire As At Present Existing. To Which is Added The Baronetage. p. 330. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  6. "CAVENDISH BRADSHAW, Hon. Augustus (1768-1832), of Putney, Surr. and High Elms, nr. Watford, Herts". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  7. "Arran, Earl of (I, 1762)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
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