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Kathleen Kennedy

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Birth Date:
20.02.1920
Death date:
13.05.1948
Person's maiden name:
Kathleen Agnes Kennedy
Extra names:
Kathleen Agnes "Kick" Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington
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Kathleen Agnes "Kick" Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington , born Kathleen Agnes Kennedy, was the fourth child and second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy. She was a sister of future U.S. President John F. Kennedy and widow of the heir to the Dukedom of Devonshire.

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Joseph Kennedy ambassador to the United Kingdom, his daughter Kathleen (nicknamed "Kick" by her family) spent a year and a half living in London. She was educated in London at Queen's College.

Kennedy worked at Cissy Patterson's newspaper, the Washington Times-Herald in 1940, writing a column titled, "Did you happen to see . . . ?".

In 1943, she returned to England to work in a centre for servicemen set up by the Red Cross. Despite the opposition of her Catholic mother, Kennedy married William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, an Anglican and the eldest son and heir of the 10th Duke of Devonshire, on May 6, 1944. Her eldest brother Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was the only member of the Kennedy family to attend the ceremony. Four months after their marriage, her husband was killed in action while serving in World War II. Her husband's younger brother Lord Andrew Cavendish, married to Deborah Mitford of the famous Mitford sisters, became the heir to the dukedom.

Popular on the London social circuit and admired by many for her high spirits, Cavendish eventually became romantically involved with Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam. The couple planned to wed after Fitzwilliam's divorce, however, while on a trip to the south of France, Fitzwilliam and Cavendish were killed as the result of an airplane crash in Saint-Bauzile, Ardèche, France.

Only Cavendish's father represented the Kennedy-Cavendish family at her funeral. Her mother did not attend and, allegedly, discouraged Cavendish's siblings from attending as well.

Kathleen Cavendish is buried in the Cavendish family plot at Saint Peter's Church in Edensor, England, near Chatsworth in Derbyshire. The gymnasium at Manhattanville College is named in her honor.

 

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        Relation nameRelation typeBirth DateDeath dateDescription
        1Joseph Patrick Kennedy, SrJoseph Patrick Kennedy, SrFather06.09.188818.11.1969
        2Rose KennedyRose KennedyMother22.07.189022.01.1995
        3Joe Kennedy, Jr.Joe Kennedy, Jr.Brother25.07.191512.08.1944
        4Robert KennedyRobert KennedyBrother20.11.192506.06.1968
        5John Fitzgerald  KennedyJohn Fitzgerald KennedyBrother29.05.191722.11.1963
        6Edward Moore KennedyEdward Moore KennedyBrother22.02.193225.08.2009
        7Rosemary KennedyRosemary KennedySister13.09.191807.01.2005
        8Eunice  Kennedy ShriverEunice Kennedy ShriverSister10.07.192111.08.2009
        9Patricia  KennedyPatricia KennedySister06.05.192417.09.2006
        10William  CavendishWilliam CavendishHusband10.12.191710.09.1944
        11John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr.John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr.Nephew25.11.196016.07.1999
        12Ethel KennedyEthel KennedySister in-law11.04.1928
        13Jacqueline Kennedy OnassisJacqueline Kennedy OnassisSister in-law28.07.192919.05.1994
        14Питер ЛоуфордПитер ЛоуфордBrother in-law07.09.192324.12.1984
        15Robert Sargent ShriverRobert Sargent ShriverBrother in-law09.11.191518.01.2011
        16Inga ArvadInga ArvadFriend06.10.191312.12.1973
        17Art ShayArt ShayFamiliar31.03.192228.04.2018
        18Billy GrahamBilly GrahamFamiliar07.11.191821.02.2018

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