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Nicholas Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham

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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 MinisterJohn Major
Preceded byThe Lord Inglewood
Succeeded byThe Lord McIntosh of Haringey
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
23 December 1989 – 11 November 1999
hereditary peer
Preceded by5th Baron Chesham
Succeeded byseat abolished
(House of Lords Act 1999)
Personal details
Born7 November 1941
Died27 August 2009(2009-08-27) (aged 67)
Political partyConservative

Nicholas Charles Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham (7 November 1941 – 27 August 2009), was a British Conservative politician.

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:

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Political offices
Preceded by Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
1995–1997
Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Chesham
1989–2009
Succeeded by