Lord Frederick Cavendish
Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish (
November 30,
1836 -
May 6,
1882), son of the 7th
Duke of Devonshire, was a
British Liberal politician and
protégé of the
Prime Minister,
William Ewart Gladstone, who was appointed to the post of
Chief Secretary for Ireland in May
1882. Within hours of taking office, along with his Under Secretary, Thomas Henry Burke, he was assassinated in the
Phoenix Park in
Dublin by a small
Irish terrorist group known as the Invincibles.
See also:
Charles Stewart Parnell
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