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{{Short description|Anglo-Irish peeress}}
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| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name          = The Baroness Waterpark
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| birth_name    = Sarah Bradshaw
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1740|8|1|df=y}}
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| death_date    = {{death date and age|1807|8|4|1740|8|1|df=y}}
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| parents       = Richard Bradshaw<br>Deborah Thompson Bradshaw
| spouse        = {{marriage|[[Sir Henry Cavendish, 2nd Baronet]]<br>|12 August 1757|3 August 1804|reason=his death}}
| children      = 8, including [[Richard Cavendish, 2nd Baron Waterpark|Richard]], [[George Cavendish (Irish politician)|George]], [[Augustus Cavendish-Bradshaw|Augustus]]
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'''Sarah Cavendish, 1st Baroness Waterpark''' (''née'' '''Bradshaw'''; 1 August 1740 – 4 August 1807), was an [[Anglo-Irish]] peeress.
==Early life==
Sarah was born on 1 August 1740. She was the only daughter, and heiress, of Richard Bradshaw and his wife Deborah Bradshaw (''née'' Thompson), a daughter of William Thompson of Cork.<ref name="BaronWaterpark"/>
==Peerage==
On 15 June 1792, she was created '''Baroness Waterpark''' in the [[Peerage of Ireland]], in her own right, by [[George III|King George III]] with remainder to the heirs male of her body by Henry Cavendish.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=13429 |date=23 June 1792 |page=462}}</ref> The title was created in honour of her husband, but in such a way that would enable him to continue to sit in the [[Irish House of Commons]]. He represented [[Lismore (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|Lismore]] and [[Killybegs (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|Killybegs]] and served as Vice-Treasurer of Ireland and as Receiver-General of Ireland. From 1768 to 1774 he sat in the [[British House of Commons]] for [[Lostwithiel (UK Parliament constituency)|Lostwithiel]].<ref name="BaronWaterpark"/>
==Personal life==
On 12 August 1757, she married the politician [[Sir Henry Cavendish, 2nd Baronet|Henry Cavendish]] (1732–1804),<ref>Peter D. G. Thomas, ‘[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4936 Cavendish, Sir  Henry, second baronet  (1732–1804)]’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press,  2004, accessed 21 Aug 2011.</ref> the eldest son of [[Sir Henry Cavendish, 1st Baronet]], and the former Anne Pyne (only daughter of [[Richard Pyne|Sir Richard Pyne]], [[Lord Chief Justice of Ireland]]).<ref>{{cite book |title=The Present Peerage of the United Kingdom ... |date=1821 |publisher=John Stockdale |page=145 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r4E3AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA145 |access-date=1 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Her husband succeeded as the 2nd [[Cavendish baronets|Cavendish baronet of Doveridge Hall]] on 31 May 1776. Together, they were the parents of eight children, including:<ref name="BaronWaterpark">{{cite web |title=Waterpark, Baron (I, 1792) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/waterpark1792.htm |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=1 May 2020 |archive-date=26 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026141721/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/waterpark1792.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Catherine Cavendish (1758–1801), who married Philippe, Baron de Ville de Maugrémon.<ref name="BaronWaterpark"/>
* Deborah Cavendish (b. {{Circa|1760}}), who married [[Sir Richard Musgrave, 1st Baronet, of Tourin]], in 1782.<ref name="BaronWaterpark"/>
* Sarah Cavendish (1763–1849), who married [[Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lodge |first1=Edmund |title=The Peerage of the British Empire As At Present Existing. To Which is Added The Baronetage |date=1834 |page=330 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OpEUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA330 |access-date=1 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref> and had issue, including [[Lady Frances Webster]].<ref name="BaronWaterpark"/>
* [[Richard Cavendish, 2nd Baron Waterpark]] (1765–1830), MP for [[Portarlington (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|Portarlington]], who married Juliana Cooper, the daughter of Thomas Cooper of [[Mullaghmast|Mullaghmast Castle]].<ref name="BaronWaterpark"/>
* [[George Cavendish (Irish politician)|George Cavendish]] (1766–1849), MP for [[St Johnstown (County Longford) (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|St Johnstown]] and [[Cavan Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|Cavan Borough]], who served as Secretary to the Lords of the Treasury of Ireland.  He married Letitia Catherine Caulfeild, daughter of James Caulfeild. After her death in 1805, he married Catherine Smyth, daughter of Ralph Smyth.<ref name="BaronWaterpark"/>
* [[Augustus Cavendish-Bradshaw|Augustus Cavendish]] (1768–1832), MP for [[Carlow (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|Carlow]], [[Honiton (UK Parliament constituency)|Honiton]], and [[Castle Rising (UK Parliament constituency)|Castle Rising]], who took the surname Bradshaw in order to inherit a legacy from his maternal grandfather. He was the defendant in a celebrated [[criminal conversation]] action brought by [[George Nugent, 7th Earl of Westmeath]], in 1796, and was required to pay £10000 damages. The Westmeaths later divorced and Augustus married Maryanne, the former Countess of Westmeath (mother of [[George Nugent, 1st Marquess of Westmeath]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/cavendish-bradshaw-hon-augustus-1768-1832 |title=CAVENDISH BRADSHAW, Hon. Augustus (1768-1832), of Putney, Surr. and High Elms, nr. Watford, Herts.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|access-date= 17 April 2016}}</ref>
* Anne Cavendish (1774–1863), who married [[James Browne, 2nd Baron Kilmaine]].<ref name="BaronWaterpark"/>
* Hon. Frederick Cavendish (1777–1856), who married Lady Eleanor Gore, a daughter of [[Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran]]. Lady Eleanor's sister, [[Cecilia Underwood, Duchess of Inverness|Lady Cecilia]], was the second wife of [[Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex]] (the sixth son of [[George III|King George III]]).<ref>{{cite web |title=Arran, Earl of (I, 1762) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/arran1762.htm |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=1 May 2020}}</ref> After her death in 1812, he married Agnes Catherine Macdonnell, a daughter of Alexander Macdonnell, in 1817.<ref name="BaronWaterpark"/>
The Baroness Waterpark died on 4 August 1807 and was succeeded in her title by her eldest son, [[Richard Cavendish, 2nd Baron Waterpark|Richard]].<ref name="BaronWaterpark"/>
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