Thomas Cave

Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet

Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet (27 May 1712 – 7 August 1778)[1] was a British politician and lawyer.

Baptised at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church in Covent Garden, he was the second son of Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Baronet and his wife Hon. Margaret Verney, daughter of John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh.[2] Cave was educated at Rugby School and then at Balliol College, Oxford.[3] In 1734, he succeeded his older brother Verney as baronet.[4] Cave was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in the following year and he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law by the University of Oxford in 1756.[3]

Cave entered the British House of Commons in 1741, sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicestershire until 1747.[5] He was again successful in 1762 and represented the constituency until his withdrawal from politics in 1774, because of ill health.[5]

He married Elizabeth Davies, daughter of Griffith Davies in November 1735 and had by her six daughters and two sons.[2] Cave died, aged 66 and was buried at Stanford, Northamptonshire.[6] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son Thomas.[4]

• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Cave,_5th_Baronet

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• Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Bt.1
• M, #18539, b. 27 May 1712, d. 7 August 1778
• Last Edited=12 Feb 2011
• Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Bt. was born on 27 May 1712.2 He was the son of Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Bt. and Hon. Margaret Verney.3 He was baptised on 4 June 1712 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Covent Garden, London, England.4 He married Elizabeth Davies, daughter of Griffith Davies and Elizabeth Burgoyne, in 1736.2 He died on 7 August 1778 at age 66.1 He was buried at Stanford, Northamptonshire, England.4
• He succeeded to the title of 5th Baronet Cave, of Stanford, co. Northampton [E., 1641] on 13 September 1734.2 He was admitted to Inner Temple in 1735 entitled to practice as a barrister.2,4 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Leicestershire between 1741 and 1747.4 He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.) by Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, on 7 April 1756.4 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Leicestershire between 1762 and 1774.4
• Children of Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Bt. and Elizabeth Davies
  • Margaret Cave+
  • Elizabeth Cave5
  • Sir Thomas Cave, 6th Bt.+3 b. 22 Aug 1737, d. 30 May 1780
  • Rev. Sir Charles Cave, 8th Bt.3 b. 1747, d. 21 Mar 1810
• Citations
• [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 288. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• [S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 725. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• [S37] BP2003. [S37]
• [S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume II, page 94. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
• [S22] Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 492. Hereinafter cited as Burkes Extinct Peerage.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p1854.htm#i18539 _____________
• CAVE, Sir Thomas, 5th Bt. (1712-78), of Stanford Hall, Leics.
• b. 27 May 1712, 2nd s. of Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Bt.. educ. Rugby 1720; Balliol, Oxf. 1729; I. Temple 1725, called 1735. m. 27 May 1726,1 Elizabeth, da. and h. of Griffith Davies, M.D., of Birmingham, Warws. and Theddingworth, Leics., 2s. 6da. suc bro. Sir Verney Cave, 4th Bt., 13 Sept. 1734.
• Offices Held
• On 6 Aug. 1740 Cave addressed a letter to the Leicestershire freeholders setting out the terms on which he was prepared to stand:
  • My father had the honour of representing you long in Parliament and I believe with great fidelity, nor am I less zealous for the general interest of the county than he was, but his elections ... were attended by a very great expense to this family. On this account, therefore, I cannot pretend to place myself in the same situation he was in and declared the same to you as one of my objections, when you nominated me for a candidate. This you were pleased to over-rule by assuring me of your effectual support in a free subscription, and by ascertaining a fixed expense on my part which you not only expected I should not exceed, but as friends to me I would not enlarge.
• Edward Smith the other Tory candidate, wrote to him three days later that ‘the subscription is enlarged a good deal to support us, and I can now only add that I hope you’ll be no longer uneasy’. As he was ‘by frequent returns of gouty and rheumatic disorders, disabled to undertake any strong exercise’, his friend, Wrightson Mundy, canvassed the county on his behalf. Returned after a contest, he was absent from the division on the chairman of the elections committee in December. His only recorded votes were against the Hanoverians in 1742 and 1744. In 1747 he wrote to the freeholders:
  • my attendance in town has increased my disorders, and it is the advice of physicians and surgeons I have consulted and the general request of all my friends in private life that ... I shall lay aside all thoughts of being again in Parliament,
• and recommended Mundy as his successor.2 He did not stand again until the next reign. He died 7 Aug. 1778.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/ca... ____________
• CAVE, Sir Thomas, 5th Bt. (1712-78), of Stanford Hall, nr. Rugby, Leics.
• b. 27 May 1712, 2nd s. of Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Bt., M.P., by Hon. Margaret Verney, da. of John, 1st Visct. Fermanagh [I], M.P., and aunt of Ralph, 2nd Earl Verney [I]. educ. Rugby 1720; Balliol, Oxf. 1729; I. Temple 1725, called 1735. m. Nov. 1735, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Griffith Davies, M.D., of Theddingworth, Leics., 2s. 6da. suc. bro. as 5th Bt. 13 Sept. 1734.
• Offices Held
• Cave was returned without a contest in 1762 and 1768.
• He appears in Henry Fox’s list of Members favourable to the peace preliminaries, December 1762. He voted against the Grenville Administration over general warrants, 15 and 18 Feb. 1764, but was classed by Jenkinson as normally a friend. In July 1765 Rockingham classed him as doubtful, but he seems to have supported the Rockingham Administration although he voted against the window tax, 18 Apr. 1766.1 Classed either as Tory or country gentleman in the lists of 1766-7, he voted against Chatham’s Administration over the land tax, 27 Feb. 1767, and the nullum tempus bill, 17 Feb. 1768.
• He does not appear in any of the eleven division lists 1769-71. Robinson in the first survey on the royal marriage bill classed him as ‘doubtful, present’, and in the second as ‘pro, present’. His only recorded speech was on 2 Mar. 1772 against the bill to abolish the observation of Charles I’s execution. In this Parliament his only other known vote was against the court on the Middlesex resolution of 26 Apr. 1773. In 1774 he was again a candidate for Leicestershire but withdrew because of ill health.
• Cave was well known as an antiquarian. He was chairman of the committee which sponsored the publication of Bridges’s History of Northamptonshire, and collected materials which were afterwards used by John Nichols in his History of Leicestershire.
• He died 7 Aug. 1778.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/ca... __________________________
• PILSWORTH, Charles (d.1749), of Oving, nr. Aylesbury, Bucks.
• ?s. of Rev. Charles Pilsworth, rector of Charfield, Glos. educ. I. Temple, called 1715. m. (1) Parnell (d. Mar. 1741), da. of Francis Tyringham of Lower Winchendon, Bucks., sis. and h. of Francis Tyringham of Lower Winchendon, s.p.; (2) 17 May 1744, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Bt., of Stanford, Northants., sis. of Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Bt., and niece of Ralph Verney, 1st Earl Verney [I], of Middle Claydon, Bucks., s.p.
• Offices Held
• Charles Pilsworth was living at Oving by 1723, before his marriage to the heiress of an old Buckinghamshire family, through whom he later acquired the manor of Oving.1 A practising lawyer with a considerable reputation among the local justices, he was described in 1733 as ‘the oracle of this country’.2 Returned for Aylesbury as a government supporter in 1741, he voted with the Administration in all recorded divisions, was summoned to the Cockpit meeting in 1742 through Winnington, and was classed as ‘Old Whig’ in 1746. When two vacancies occurred among the judges in March 1745, Pilsworth wrote to his uncle, Lord Verney:
• This will be the fairest opportunity that can offer of pushing our point; for if the ministry will not comply now, I shall be convinced they never intend to do anything. If ... they should appear to trifle with us, we must in such case find access to the King forthwith ... I am determined to press this point at this juncture; if those seats are filled with younger lives, I can have no further expectations. Verney replied:
• I have had some discourse with [Mr. Pelham] ... he speaks very fair and wishes you may be a judge, but says it can’t be now ... I really believe the ministry are in earnest and will serve you another time.3 Before anything more was done, Pilsworth died, 4 Jan. 1749. From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/pi... _______________________
• The Cave, later Cave-Browne, later Cave-Browne-Cave Baronetcy, of Stanford in the County of Northampton, is a title in the Baronetage of England.
• It was created on 30 June 1641 for Thomas Cave, a Royalist who fought in the English Civil War. Granted lands in South and North Cave in Yorkshire by William the Conqueror, by the fifteenth century the Caves had moved to Stanford on the boundary of Northamptonshire and Leicestershire to become "a wealthy and powerful clan, foremost among the new men of the age, the nouveaux riches, the shrewd, rapacious, grasping gentry raised up by the Tudor dynasty".[1] Sir Thomas's aunt Eleanor was married to the diplomat Sir Thomas Roe; his great-grandmother, Margaret, was a sister of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Queen Elizabeth I's Lord High Treasurer; and her husband Roger's uncle Sir Ambrose Cave was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under Elizabeth.
• Sir Thomas Cave's son, the second Baronet, was Member of Parliament for Coventry. His son, the third Baronet, was Member of Parliament for Leicestershire. He married the Hon. Margaret, daughter of John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh, and a descendant of Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye. Their elder son, the fourth Baronet, died unmarried in 1734 and the baronetcy devolved on his younger brother, who also sat as Member of Parliament for Leicestershire. His elder son, the sixth Baronet, was a Fellow of the Royal Society and High Sheriff of Leicestershire. His son, the seventh Baronet, sat briefly as Member of Parliament for Leicestershire but died childless at an early age. His sister Sarah Otway, the sixth Baronet's only daughter, then inherited the family seat of Stanford Hall, Leicestershire, and in 1839 became the third Baroness Braye when the abeyance of the barony of Braye was terminated in her favour (see the Baron Braye for further history of this branch of the family). The seventh Baronet was succeeded by his uncle, the eighth Baronet. He was an unmarried clergyman and on his death in 1810 the line of the third Baronet failed.
• The late Baronet was succeeded by his second cousin, William Cave-Browne, the ninth Baronet. He was the son of John Cave-Browne (who in 1752 had assumed the additional surname of Browne by Act of Parliament), son of Roger Cave, eldest son of the second marriage of the second Baronet, by his wife Catherine, daughter of William Browne of Stretton en le Field in Derbyshire. In 1839 the ninth Baronet's assumption of the additional surname of Cave was confirmed by royal licence. He was succeeded by his son, the tenth Baronet. He was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1844. His son, the eleventh Baronet, was a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Derbyshire. He was succeeded by his second but only surviving son, the twelfth Baronet. He was initially a soldier and fought in the Boxer Rebellion and First World War, but was later ordained. He died childless and was succeeded by his first cousin, the eldest surviving son of the thirteen children of Ambrose Syned Cave-Browne-Cave, younger son of the tenth Baronet. A Captain in the Royal Navy who had served at the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882,[2] the thirteenth Baronet was childless and was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourteenth Baronet. He died in 1943 without surviving male issue and was succeeded by his nephew, the fifteenth Baronet. He was the son of Edward Lambert Cave-Browne-Cave, the fifth son of the aforementioned Ambrose Syned Cave-Browne-Cave. The title is now held by the fifteenth Baronet's grandson, the seventeenth Baronet, who succeeded his father, the sixteenth Baronet, upon the latter's death in 2011.[3]
• .... etc.
• Cave, later Cave-Browne, later Cave-Browne-Cave baronets, of Stanford (1641)[edit]
  • Sir Thomas Cave, 1st Baronet (c. 1622–c.1671)
  • Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Baronet (1655–1703)
  • Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Baronet (1681–1719)
  • Sir Verney Cave, 4th Baronet (1705–1734)
  • Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet (1712–1778)
  • Sir Thomas Cave, 6th Baronet (1737–1780)
  • Sir Thomas Cave, 7th Baronet (1766–1792)
  • Sir Charles Cave, 8th Baronet (c. 1747–1810)
  • Sir William Cave-Browne-Cave, 9th Baronet (1765–1838)
  • Sir John Robert Cave-Browne-Cave, 10th Baronet (1798–1855)
  • Sir Mylles Cave-Browne-Cave, 11th Baronet (1822–1907)
  • Sir Genille Cave-Browne-Cave, 12th Baronet (1869–1929) [8]
  • Sir Reginald Ambrose Cave-Browne-Cave, 13th Baronet (1860–1930)
  • Sir Rowland Henry Cave-Browne-Cave, 14th Baronet (1865–1943)
  • Sir Clement Charles Cave-Browne-Cave, 15th Baronet (1896–1945)
  • Sir Robert Cave-Browne-Cave, 16th Baronet (1929–2011)
  • Sir John Robert Charles Cave-Browne-Cave, 17th Baronet (born 1957)
• The heir presumptive is Paul Cave-Browne-Cave (born 1954), sole son of the aforementioned Paul Cave and, as the great-great-great-grandson of the ninth Baronet, the fourth cousin once removed of the seventeenth Baronet.
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave-Browne-Cave_baronets ________________

Biographical Summary

Sir Thomas Cave, Bart. [1641], of Stanford aforesaid, br. and h., b. 27 May and bap. 4 June 1712, at St. Martin's in the Fields ; matric. at Oxford (Ball. Coll.), 3 Nov. 1729, aged 17 ; suc. to the Baronetcy, 13 Sep. 1734 ; Banister (Inner Temple), 1735 ; M.P. for Leicestershire, 1741-47, 1762-68 and 1768-74 ; cr. D.C.L. of Oxford, 7 April 1766. He m., 1736, Elizabeth, da. and sole surv. issue of Griffith Davies, M.D., of Theddingworth, co. Leicester, and of Birmingham, co. Warwick, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Burgoyne, 3d Bart. [1641], of Sutton. She d. 15 May 1760. He d. 7 Aug. 1778, aged 67. Both bur. at Stanford.

SOURCE: Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1902; Vol. II; page 94

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