Cavendish, Thomas, an English navigator, fitted out three vessels to cruise against the Spaniards; extended his cruise into the Pacific; succeeded in taking valuable prizes, with which he landed in England, after circumnavigating the globe; he set out on a second cruise, which ended in disaster, and he died in the island of Ascension broken-hearted (1555‒1592).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cavendish, Spencer Compton * Cavendish, William