About Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (née Freeman-Mitford; 31 March 1920 – 24 September 2014), was an English aristocrat, writer, memoirist, and socialite. She was the youngest and last surviving of the six Mitford sisters, who were prominent members of British society in the 1930s and 1940s. == Early life == Known to her family as "Debo", Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford was born in Kensington, London, on 31 March 1920. Her parents were David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1878–1958), son of Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, and his wife, Sydney (1880–1963), daughter of Thomas Gibson Bowles, MP. Deborah was the youngest of the six Mitford sisters, namely Nancy (born 1904), Pamela (1907), Diana (1910), Unity (1914), Jessica (1917) and Deborah herself (1920). There was one brother, Tom (born 1909), who was killed in action in 1945. Deborah was a contented, loving and cheerful child who, unlike her politically active sisters, was happy to accept life as she found it, and never felt the need to right the world's injustices. In a later memoir, she wrote "as everything in life is unfair, perhaps the sooner it is realised the better". == Marriage == In 1941 Deborah married Lord Andrew Cavendish, younger son of the 10th Duke of Devonshire in the Priory Church of St Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield, London. When Cavendish's older brother, William, Marquess of Hartington, was killed in action in 1944, Cavendish became heir to the dukedom and began to use the courtesy title Marquess of Hartington. In 1950, on the death of his father, Deborah's husband became the 11th Duke of Devonshire.
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