![]() ![]() When Cavendish's older brother, William, Marquess of Hartington, was killed in action in 1944, Cavendish became heir to the dukedom and began to use the courtesy title Marquess of Hartington. She married Lord Andrew Cavendish, younger son of the 10th Duke of Devonshire, in 1941. ![]() Her parents were David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1878–1958), son of Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, and his wife, Sydney (1880–1963), daughter of Thomas Gibson Bowles, MP. Known to her family as "Debo", Deborah Mitford was born in Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire, England. She was the youngest and last-surviving of the six Mitford sisters, who were prominent members of British society in the 1930s and 1940s. ![]() David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdaleĭeborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, DCVO (born Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford and latterly Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire 31 March 1920 – 24 September 2014) was an English aristocrat, writer, memoirist, and socialite. ![]()
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