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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[?].

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