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