Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos
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Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos, KB, known from 1727 to 1744 by the courtesy title Marquess of Carnarvon, was the second son of the 1st Duke of Chandos and his first wife Mary Lake. He was the Member of Parliament for Hereford from 1727 to 1734, for Steyning between 1734 and 1741, and Bishop's Castle between 1741 and 1744.
Henry Brydges (later 2nd Duke of Chandos) aged about five, pictured in 1713 with his father James Brydges (later 1st Duke of Chandos), his elder brother John (later Marquess of Carnarvon) and either his mother Mary (died 1712) or his stepmother Cassandra.
Anne, Duchess of Chandos (died 1759), by Joseph Highmore, in the Walker Art Gallery.
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
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James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1698 until 1714, when he succeeded to the peerage as Baron Chandos, and vacated his seat in the House of Commons to sit in the House of Lords. He was subsequently created Earl of Carnarvon, and then Duke of Chandos in 1719.
Portrait by Michael Dahl, 1719
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (1673–1744), portrait by John Vanderbank, painted in 1722 and showing the newly constructed great basin at Cannons in the background.
A portrait of the Duke of Chandos by Herman van der Mijn
Cannons House, Middlesex, England, seat of the Duke of Chandos