Sir Roger Cave, MP, 2nd Baronet

Roger Cave

Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Baronet (21 September 1655 – 11 October 1703)[1] was an English politician and baronet.

Roger Cave was the oldest son of Sir Thomas Cave, 1st Baronet and his second wife Hon. Penelope Wenman, daughter of Thomas Wenman, 2nd Viscount Wenman.[2] In 1671, he succeeded his father as baronet and owner of Stanford Hall, Leicestershire.[1] He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge.[3]

Cave was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire for 1679–80[4] and then Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry from 1685 until 1690.[5]

On 26 March 1676, Cave married firstly Martha Browne, daughter of John Browne,[6] and then secondly Mary Bromley, daughter of Sir William Bromley.[4] He had five sons and two daughters by his first wife and a son and two daughters by his second wife.[2] Cave died in 1703 and was succeeded by his oldest son Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Baronet.[7]

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Cave

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• Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Bt.1
• M, #126522, b. circa 1651, d. 11 October 1703
• Last Edited=12 Feb 2011
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• Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Bt. was born circa 1651.2 He was the son of Sir Thomas Cave, 1st Bt. and Penelope Wenman.3 He married, secondly, Mary Bromley, daughter of Sir William Bromley.4 He married, firstly, Martha Browne, daughter of John Browne and Elizabeth Packer, on 24 February 1675/76.4 He died on 11 October 1703.4
• He succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet Cave, of Stanford, co. Northampton [E., 1641] before February 1671.4 He held the office of Sheriff of Northamptonshire from 1679 to 1680.2 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Coventry between 1685 and 1687.2 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Coventry from 1689 to 1690.2
• Children of Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Bt. and Mary Bromley
  • Eleanor Cave+1 d. 26 Sep 1734
  • Roger Cave+3 d. Mar 1741
  • Mary Cave3
• Child of Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Bt. and Martha Browne
  • Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Bt.+3 b. c 1682, d. 21 Apr 1719
• Citations
• [S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume III, page 113. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
• [S15] George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, volume II, page 93.
• [S37] BP2003 See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• [S37] BP2003. [S37]
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p12653.htm#i126522 __________________
• CAVE, Sir Roger, 2nd Bt. (1655-1703), of Stanford Hall, Leics.
• bap. 21 Sept. 1655, 3rd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Thomas Cave, 1st Bt., of Stanford by 2nd w. Penelope, da. and coh. of Thomas Wenman, 2nd Visct. Wenman of Tuam [I]. educ. Christ’s, Camb. 1671. m. (1) lic. 24 Feb. 1676, Martha, da. and h. of John Browne of Eydon, Northants., clerk of Parliament 1638-49, May 1660-91, 4s. (2 d.v.p.) 2da.; (2) Mary, da. of Sir William Bromley of Baginton, Warws., 1s. 2 da. suc. fa. Nov. 1670.1
• Offices Held
  • Commr. for assessment, Northants. 1677-80, Leics. and Northants. 1689-90; sheriff, Northants. 1679-80; j.p. Northants. 1680-7, 1689-d., Leics. by 1700-d.; dep. lt. Northants. 1685-7.2
• Cave’s ancestors had resided at Stanford, on the borders of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire, as tenants of Selby Abbey in the 15th century. They purchased the freehold on the dissolution of the monasteries; but they were not a regular parliamentary family, although a younger son, Sir Ambrose Cave, sat for Leicestershire and Warwickshire and became chancellor of the duchy under Elizabeth. Cave’s father was created a baronet on the eve of the Civil War; it was alleged that he had acted as commissioner of array and furnished the King with horses, arms and money, but, although the estate was under sequestration for a time, there are no records of compounding.3
• Cave was given the baronetcy fee of his brother-in-law, Orlando Bridgeman, in 1673, and sued out a pardon for homicide in 1677; the circumstances are unknown. With Bridgeman’s help he and the local Tory Sir Thomas Norton defeated the Whig John Stratford at Coventry in 1685. He was moderately active in James II’s Parliament, being appointed to the committees for expiring laws, a naturalization bill, and the bill for the suppression of simony. He was removed from local office in 1687, and during the Revolution joined Princess Anne’s escort at Nottingham. He was re-elected to the Convention, and voted to agree with the Lords that the throne was not vacant. An inactive Member, he was named to the committee of elections and privileges, and to those to inquire into the authors and advisers of grievances, to prepare a bill for the abolition of hearth-tax, and to consider the toleration bill. In the second session he was appointed only to the committee to examine the state of the revenue. He is not known to have stood again. He died on 11 Oct. 1703, and was buried at Stanford. His son, the third baronet, sat for Leicestershire as a Tory from 1711 till his death in 1719.4
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/ca... __________________
• CAVE, Sir Thomas, 3rd Bt. (1681-1719), of Stanford Hall, Leics.
• bap. 9 Apr. 1681, 1st s. of Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Bt.†, by his 1st w. Martha, da. and h. of John Browne of Eydon, Northants., clerk of the Parliaments. educ. Rugby 1690; Christ Church, Oxf. 1699. m. 20 Feb. 1703 (with £3,000), Margaret (d. 1774), da. of John Verney*, 1st Visct. Fermanagh [I], 2s. 2da. suc. fa. as 3rd Bt. 11 Oct. 1703.1
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/ca... ________________
• CAVE, Sir Thomas, 3rd Bt. (?1682-1719), of Stanford Hall, Leics.
• b. ?1682, 1st s. of Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Bt., M.P., by Martha, da. and h. of John Browne of Eydon, Northants., clerk of the Parliaments. educ. Rugby 1690; Ch. Ch. Oxf. 27 Jan. 1699, aged 16. m. 20 Feb. 1703, Margaret, da. of John Verney, 1st Visct. Fermanagh [I], and sis. of Ralph Verney, 1st Earl Verney, 2s. 2da. suc. fa. 11 Oct. 1703.
• Offices Held
• Cave belonged to an old Leicestershire family, who had represented the county since the sixteenth century. Returned for it as a Tory in 1711, he stood again in 1715. On 1 Jan. 1715 he wrote to his father-in-law, Lord Fermanagh:
  • Your tender concern for my election was very obliging, and the motives of it considerable, viz. the trouble and expense; the first of these I shall never think much of, I confess to the other I must have more respect. I hope to have obliged all without profuseness, or any apparent danger to my affairs, and I’m now sedately prepared to attend the issue of our contest, wherein appear to me some difficulties by our adversary being largely supplied with money ab incognito, all the great men against us, and our sheriff a rank Whig.
• When it was clear that Cave and Sir Geoffrey Palmer would have a majority the sheriff refused to make a return, necessitating a fresh election, at which they were successful. In the House Cave deplored the treatment of the many election petitions, by which ‘the Whigs daily purge the House of honest men’, as well as the proceedings against the Tory leaders, especially Stanhope’s ‘inveteracy’ against ‘the good Duke’ of Ormonde. In 1716 he wrote to Lord Fermanagh asking him to attend the House ‘to prevent the impending danger of a bill [the septennial bill], which must wound a great part of the constitution ... indeed all our friends wish for every single Member’. He himself voted against the bill, and against the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts in 1719. He died 21 Apr. 1719 aged 38, leaving heavy debts, probably caused by the two contests of 1715.1
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/ca... _____________
• EGERTON, Sir Thomas, 6th Bt. (?1721-56), of Heaton, Lancs.
• b. ?1721, 2nd surv. s. of Sir Holland Egerton, 4th Bt., of Heaton by Eleanor, da. of Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Bt., M.P., of Stanford, Leics. by Mary. sis. of William Bromley, Speaker of the House of Commons. educ. B.N.C. Oxf. 28 Nov. 1740, aged 19. m. 14 June 1748, Catherine, da. of Rev. John Copley of Batley, Yorks., fellow of the collegiate church at Manchester and rector of Thornhill and Wakefield, Yorks., 2s. 1da. suc. bro. Sir Edward Egerton, 5th Bt., 16 Feb. 1744.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/eg... _______________
• 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)
  • 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 ________________