Nicholas Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham

Nicholas Charles Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham (1941–27 August 2009), was a British Conservative politician.

The Right Honourable The Lord Chesham
Deputy Chief Whip of the House of Lords Captain of the Queen's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard
In office 8 July 1995 – 3 May 1997
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	The Lord Inglewood
Succeeded by	The Lord McIntosh of Haringey
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 23 December 1989 – 11 November 1999 hereditary peer
Preceded by	5th Baron Chesham
Succeeded by	seat abolished (House of Lords Act 1999)
Personal details
Born	1941
Died	27 August 2009
Political party	Conservative

A member of the Cavendish family headed by the Duke of Devonshire, Chesham was the son of John Cavendish, 5th Baron Chesham and Mary Edmunds Marshall. He took his seat in the House of Lords on his father's death in 1989, and served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (Deputy Chief Government Whip in the House of Lords) from 1995 to 1997 in the Conservative administration of John Major. However, he lost his seat in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the upper chamber of Parliament. He married first on 4 November 1965 to Susan Donne Beauchamp. They divorced in 1969. Nicholas then married Suzanne Adrienne Byrne, in 1973. He died on 27 August 2009.[1]

They had two sons:

• Charles Cavendish, 7th Baron Chesham, b. 11 November 1974 who succeeded his father to become the seventh Baron Chesham.
• The Hon. William George Gray Compton, b. 13 April 1980

References

1. Succession confirmation for 7th Baron, Retrieved 1 September 2009