The Hon. William Hunter Cavendish (c. 1735–1818) Baptized January 24,1734 Parish Church, Doveridge Derbyshire England 2nd son of Sir Henry Cavendish, 1st Baronet and his wife Anne Pyne. Came to Virginia from Ireland about 1756/1760. He was a lawyer; a landowner/farmer at Greenbriar; a Quarter-Master General during the Revolutionary war 1778-82; a founding board member of Washington College, Lexington, Virginia 1796; and an early American politician. He represented Greenbrier County in the Virginia House of Delegates 1790–1799 and 1802–1803, where he was affiliated with the Federalist Party.[1]
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