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Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire ( 23 July 1833 – 24 March 1908 ) was a British Liberal Statesman , previously known (1858-1891) as '''Marquess of Hartington''' (a Courtesy Title ). Cavendish was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and entered Parliament in 1857 . Between 1863 and 1874 Hartington held various Government posts, including lord of the Admiralty , under-secretary for war, postmaster-general, and chief secretary for Ireland . In 1875 he became Leader of the Liberal opposition, and in 1880 , after the fall of Benjamin Disraeli 's government, he was invited to form a government, but chose instead to serve under William Ewart Gladstone as Secretary Of State For India (1880– 1882 ) and Secretary Of State For War (1882– 1885 ). In 1886 he broke with Gladstone over Irish Home Rule , and became the leader of the Liberal Unionist s. Queen Victoria asked him twice more in 1886– 1887 to form a government, but again he declined, giving support from the back benches to the Conservative government of Lord Salisbury . Having succeeded as Duke Of Devonshire in 1891 and entered the House Of Lords , he eventually joined Salisbury's government in 1895 as Lord President Of The Council . He resigned from the government in 1903 , and from the Liberal Unionist Association the following spring, in protest at Joseph Chamberlain 's Tariff Reform scheme. He was married in 1892 , at the age of 59, to Louisa Frederica Augusta Von Alten , widow of the late William Drogo Montagu, 7th Duke Of Manchester . Upon his death, he was succeeded by his nephew. EXTERNAL LINK
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