Thomas Cave

• BIRTH 1681
• DEATH 21 Apr 1719 (aged 37–38)
• BURIAL St. Nicholas's Churchyard, Stanford-on-Avon, Daventry District, Northamptonshire, England Show Map
• MEMORIAL ID 184224379 Photos by Craig L

Biographical Summary

Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Baronet DL (19 April 1681 – 21 April 1719)[1] was a British Tory politician and baronet. He was the oldest son of Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Baronet and his first wife Martha Browne, daughter of John Browne.[2] In 1703, he succeeded his father as baronet.[2] Cave was educated at Christ Church College, Oxford.[3] In 1705, he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Northamptonshire,[4] and in 1711, he stood successfully for Leicestershire in a by-election.[5] Cave was elected in the 1713 general election unchallenged, and was also returned in the 1715 general election after a withdraval from his Whig opponent.[4] He finally represented the constituency in the British House of Commons until his death in 1719.[5]

• On 20 February 1703, Cave married Hon. Margaret Verney, youngest daughter of John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh at St Giles's-in-the-Fields Church.[3] They had two sons and two daughters.[6] Cave was buried at Stanford, Northamptonshire.[3] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his sons Verney and Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet successively.[6] From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Cave,_3rd_Baronet [3]

Political Career

Sir Thomas Cave was in many ways the archetypal Tory country gentleman in terms of lifestyle and prejudices. A high-minded Anglican, he regarded himself as a political spectator rather than a participant, judging himself ‘no tame politician’. Barely out of his youth, he inherited financially robust estates straddling the Leicestershire–Northamptonshire border from a father who never reconciled himself to his son’s choice of bride. Sir Roger’s own marriage had brought into the family a fortune of £30,000, and not unnaturally he wished his son and heir to marry equally advantageously. Cave’s marriage to Margaret Verney in February 1703 was performed in London without his father’s knowledge, a fact which momentarily ‘filled the town with fresh discourse’. Neither did this fait accompli help to soften the elder Cave, who allowed his son a niggardly £80 a year ‘to keep him from starving’.

The young couple were made welcome at the Verneys’ Buckinghamshire seat at Claydon, until Sir Roger’s timely death in October. Cave very soon came to value a warm relationship with his father-in-law, and the two families exchanged visits regularly every year. On taking title and estates he quickly settled into the routines and responsibilities of a country gentleman. His letters to the Verneys reveal a companionable and sportsmanlike personality, dedicated to horse-racing, the chase and shooting, although his diminutive stature was not an asset: once, Lord Fermanagh observed, ‘the little baronet hath much ado to get clear of the black thorns, or brussle through the tall underwood’. Besides the Tory Verneys, his social milieu included two leading Midlands gentry families, also of Tory stock: the Bromleys of Warwickshire, with whom he was connected through his father’s second marriage, Cave’s stepmother being the sister of William Bromley II*; and the Ishams of Northamptonshire, whom he invariably assisted at elections.2

Though not elected until 1711, Cave had by then gained some familiarity with the ways of the House, having attended debates in several sessions, probably at the invitation of Members in his acquaintance. In January 1705 he was present at the debates on a place bill, informing Fermanagh of the rejection of another bill, ‘which I was in hopes might have passed’, to incapacitate peers from holding public office or benefiting ?nancially from taking their seats. At the same time he concurred with Fermanagh’s desire to see a bill to compel army officer-MPs ‘to be with their men, and not suffered to loiter in England when the campaign is begun’, as ‘equal and just’. Although the lateness of the session would not permit such a bill, he expressed a youthful determination to broach the idea with Members known to him.

However, the design was soon forgotten. At the end of January he shared the homeward journey with Sir Justinian Isham, 4th Bt.*, and ‘others of our countrymen’, whose immediate task was to prepare for the forthcoming Northamptonshire election. His appointment in February as a deputy-lieutenant for Northamptonshire by its Whig lord lieutenant, the Earl of Peterborough, was made, so one gentleman speculated, ‘to sweeten him’. During polling in May Cave energetically handled the problems of transporting distant freeholders by hiring all available horses and using his own coach to convey the elderly. The poll was given up, however, before his own contingent of voters could reach Northampton.3

In November 1705, Cave was in London to watch over a private bill initiated on his behalf in the House of Lords, enabling him to dispose of land at Eydon in Northamptonshire to raise portions for his brother and sisters, and which received the Royal Assent in mid-February. Some property was evidently retained at Eydon, since Cave’s stepmother and sisters were still living there in 1711. In January he also took the opportunity to attend the Commons’ proceedings on the disputed return for Leicester. In July 1707 Cave was one of the j.p.s dismissed during Lord Chancellor Cowper’s (William*) extensive remodelling of the Leicestershire bench.

Following John Verney’s death in October, he canvassed busily for the Tory Geoffrey Palmer* in the ensuing by-election in November. On hearing of the motion made on 17 Nov. to repeal the Game Act he saw its use as a possible election gambit, and asked Fermanagh to find out ‘who first motioned it in the House, and whether Churchman or Fanatick; if the first the information may be of service to us’. A few months later Cave was promoting the Tory cause again at the 1708 general election. As the new Parliament of 1710 assembled for its first session he reflected sceptically on the nation’s euphoric mood of expectation: ‘the ignorant country rejoyceth much, and seemeth to expect great alter[ati]ons from your house’.4

The accession of Lord Granby (John Manners*, Lord Roos) to his father’s dukedom in January 1711 precipitated discussion about who might replace him as Member for Leicestershire. There was almost complete unanimity among the county’s leading Tories, meeting in London early in February, that it should be Cave. They pressed him to resolve immediately, ‘thinking you the fittest to represent the county’. Unenthusiastic at first, he merely told his father-in-law he had ‘complied’. One of his strongest advocates was the former shire knight John Wilkins, who seems to have suggested his name to the county’s leading Tory peer, Lord Denbigh, even before the by-election had materialized, and it was Wilkins who took on the task of organizing Cave’s campaign. The appearance of a Tory rival, Henry Tate, to whom several of Cave’s friends had already pledged themselves threatened an unnecessarily divisive campaign, which, as he himself recognized, would be damaging to the party. He explained his predicament to Fermanagh:

"...the sudden resolution of some of my former friends must give the county a great deal of trouble and make the election more strange to see some before my friends now my opponents, and others formerly my opposites now my side bearers, for by losing my old I’m obliged to make new friends. I must confess ’twould be unhappy to have the Ch[urch] interest once divided which would be difficult to unite. I can’t honourably recede from my engagem[en]t nor the worthy gents that desired my standing desire it."

By mid-February, however, Tate’s withdrawal had retrieved the situation and Cave was returned without opposition. During his first session Cave was noted as a ‘worthy patriot’ who supported the initiatives to expose the previous ministry’s mismanagements, but did not belong to any Tory back-bench group. He shared his party’s irritation at the expense of maintaining troops abroad during lulls in campaigning, grumbling, ‘I fear we shall pay ’em extravagantly dear for their quiet.’ In the summer he was reinstated on the county bench by Lord Chancellor Harcourt (Simon I*).

London proved thoroughly uncongenial to him, and he once compared ‘stinking London’ to his ‘paradise’ at home. He seems never to have spent longer than one month there at a time. Singularly inactive in the House throughout his parliamentary career, he became progressively less conscientious about his attendance. In his first session he was up at the House as late as June 1712, reporting to Fermanagh the embittered debates on the conduct of the war in which ‘the Whigs raved very violently’.

The following year, however, he left Claydon for London in mid-April, and was soon reporting that the 2s. reduction in the land tax ‘no doubt will be highly acceptable to the country and all landed men’. A little over a month elapsed before he was again back at Stanford. Finding no opponents in the next general election, he had sufficient leisure to invite himself to Claydon, ‘as we Leicestershire beanbullies apprehend no opposition, you may command my attendance on you’. Early in September he and Lord Tamworth (Robert Shirley*) were returned unchallenged.5

At the beginning of 1714 Cave expressed relief at news of the Queen’s improving health, ‘especially from the reflections of the ill consequences of her death, and what confusion it must have created, while affairs are so unsettled’. He was in no doubt that during her illness the Whigs had been ‘very uppish’ and the Tories ‘as much dejected’. After the new session had opened he spent a token two or three weeks in London, returning comfortably before the House recessed for Easter on 24 Mar. Anticipating a summons from Sir George Beaumont, 4th Bt.*, ‘the sergeant’, he travelled south again in mid-April and for a few weeks was deeply absorbed in ‘the excessive hurry and fatigue’ of ‘a continued close attendance’ during the debates on the peace ‘and never dined more than two days before six at night’.

He was appalled at the attitude of the Whigs, referring to them with irony as the ‘religious party’, for espousing far more confidence in the Emperor as a guarantor of the Protestant succession than ‘to our present good Protestant Queen’, when persecutions of German Protestants under the late Emperor Joseph I were still ‘very fresh’ and there being no sign of change in imperial policy: ‘’tis monstrous to see what lies and impossibilities they suggest to us; I can equal their practices at best to nothing but the snake in the grass’. Within a few more weeks in mid-May he had reserved his place on the Aylesbury coach, having stayed in town longer than he had originally intended.

Early in June news reached him that the House was to be called over, but he decided to remain until called up by Beaumont and ‘take another mouthful of agreeable Leicestershire air’. He had little time for the ‘whimsical’ sentiments that were emerging in his party. Towards the end of June, further deferral of the call had caused him to give up the prospect of visiting London again in the session. He teased his father-in-law about the death of the Electress Sophia, jesting, ‘I wish to know if you was at old Sophy’s burial’. At the beginning of August the jokes were laid aside, however. Cave instantly responded to news of the Queen’s death, and probably left for town even before receiving Beaumont’s summons of the 3rd. At the Commons on the 4th he joined ‘a great concourse of the members to prevent any Whiggish play after so great a loss of the Queen’. The Whigs appeared to him in buoyant, ‘uppish’ mood, ‘and threatened hard’. He was back at Stanford on the 10th.6

Soon afterwards Cave came in for criticism from some of Leicestershire’s county gentry for his indecisiveness upon the question of his candidacy in the forthcoming election. He may well have thought twice before embarking on what he must have apprehended would be a strenuous and expensive contest. He was certainly under no delusions about the newly exposed condition of the Tories: ‘we are threatened in all our employs when the King comes over’. Having decided to press forward, he was smartly rebuked by Beaumont for neglecting to publicize his intentions:

"...to do your brother [i.e. (Sir) Geoffrey Palmer (3rd Bt.)] and you justice you have done your parts to promote an opposition, in running out of the county and not condescending so much as to let your countrymen know you offer your services to them. We meet with Leicestershire men almost daily in town, who from the neglect of the former kn[igh]ts of the shire conclude they are to have new ones."

• For the rest of the year Cave campaigned unstintingly, touring the county regularly on horseback in company with his fellow candidate, Palmer. Against his own inclination, he had been goaded by experienced electioneers such as Beaumont, James Winstanley* and John Wilkins into initiating an orchestrated campaign well before the Whig contestants appeared on the scene. In consequence of this protracted ordeal, quite unlike his previous unopposed elections, he became weighed down by the pressure of overcoming ‘the vast Armada equipped with the great peers’.

To his father-in-law he ruled out all question of a compromise with the Whigs, not wishing to ‘yield to any degenerate terms of compromise of those spawners of iniquity’, but the very next day, 19 Oct., confessed wearily to his brother-in-law, Ralph Verney†, ‘I have taken more pains than I ever had thoughts of.’ He was eventually returned in April 1715 following the Whig sheriff’s refusal to make a return in February.7 Cave was still at an early age when he died on 21 Apr. 1719; he was buried at Stanford. His funerary monument, erected by his wife, described him as ‘a gentleman of steadfast principles to Church and state’.8 [4]

Inscription
Sacred to the
Memory of Sir Tho Cave
Baronet of Stanford Hall in
the County of Leicester Son
of Sir Roger Cave Bar by Martha
Daughter of John Brown Esq of Eydon
in the County of Northampton
Clerk of the Parliament
He married The Honolo Margaret Verney
youngest Dtr of The Rt Honoloble
Sir John Verney Bart of Middle Claydon
in the County of Bucks and Viscount
Fermannah in the Kingdom of Ireland by
whom he Left Issue two Sons & two Daughters viz
The Present Bar Sir Verney Cave Thomas
Elizabeth & Penelope
His Familly is of Great Antiquity in the County
of York as well as Northampton & Leicester
Nor did He deviate from the
Reputation of His Ancestors as a Gentleman
of Sted fast Principles to the Church & State
He was Representative for Leicestershire and
served his Country in severall Parliaments with
strićt Integrity of Universal Honour Probity
& Virtue Accomplished with Sound
Learning much Candour Elegance and Generosity Endowments
so amiable That they recommended him to
Universal Esteem & Shone out more Particularly
in the Husband Father Relation & Friend
Had his Constitution been as Vigorous
as his Parts He had in all Probability survived the
39th Year of his Age in which he Exchanged this
life for a better on the 21st day of April 1719
and was Deposited in a Vault within
this Chancel This Monument being Gratefully
Erected to Preserve the Memory of him To
Posterity at the Expence of His Most Loving
and well beloved Wife
Anno Domini 1733

Parents
Roger Cave 1655–1703

Spouse
Margaret Verney Cave unknown–1774

Children
Verney Cave 1704–1734
Thomas Cave 1712–1778

References

[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/184224379/thomas-cave

Source

[2] Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1902; Vol. II; page 93

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Cave,_3rd_Baronet

[4] http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/ca...

Additional Information== (incorporate above as needed)

Sir Thomas Cave, Bart. [1641], of Stanford aforesaid, s. and h., by 1st wife, b. about 1682, matrio. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 27 Jan. 1698/9, aged 16 ; suc. to the Baronetcy 11 Oct. 1703 ; M.P. for Leicestershire (three Paris.), 1711 till hia death in 1719. Hem. 20 Feb. 1703, at St. Giles' in the Fields, Margaret, sister of Ralph, 1st Earl Verney [I.], da. of John (Vernet), 1st Viscount Fermanagh [I.], by his 1st wife, Elizabeth, da. of Ralph Palmer. He d. 21 April 1719, in his 39th year, and was bur. at Stanford. M.I. Will dat. 20 Jan. 1718-19, pr. 23 July 1719. His widow (whose issue, in 1810, became heir to the family of Verney) d. 17 May 1774. Her will pr. May 1774. [2]
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• Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Bt.1
• M, #29807, b. circa 1682, d. 21 April 1719
• Last Edited=12 Feb 2011
• Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Bt. was born circa 1682.2 He was the son of Sir Roger Cave, 2nd Bt. and Martha Browne.3 He married Hon. Margaret Verney, daughter of John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh and Elizabeth Palmer, on 20 February 1703 at St. Gile's-in-the-Fields Church, London, England.4,2 He died on 21 April 1719.4 He was buried at Stanford, Northamptonshire, England.5 His will was proven (by probate) on 23 July 1719.5
• He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, on 27 January 1698/99.2 He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baronet Cave, of Stanford, co. Northampton [E., 1641] on 11 October 1703.4 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Leicestershire between 1711 and 1719.4,2 His last will was dated 20 January 1718/19.
• Children of Sir Thomas Cave, 3rd Bt. and Hon. Margaret Verney
  • Sir Verney Cave, 4th Bt.3 b. 4 Jan 1704/5, d. 13 Sep 1734
  • Elizabeth Cave3 b. 16 Aug 1705
  • Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Bt.+3 b. 27 May 1712, d. 7 Aug 1778
• 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.
• [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 93. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
• [S37] BP2003 See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• [S37] BP2003. [S37]
• [S15] George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, volume II, page 94.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p2981.htm#i29807 ____________
• 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

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• 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... _____________
• 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 ________________
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