Sir Thomas Cave of Stanford, 6th Baronet

Biographical Summary

Sir Thomas Cave, Bart. [1641], of Stanford aforesaid, s. and h., 6. 22 Aug. 1737 ; matric. at Oxford (Balliol Coll.), 1 April 1756, aged 18 ; cr. D.C.L., 8 July 1773 ; F.R.S., F.S.A., 1799 ; suc. to the Baronetcy, 7 Aug. 1778 ; Sheriff for Leicestershire, Feb. to June 1780. He m. in 1765 (it is said, at St. Lawrence Jewry, London), Sarah, da. and coh. of John Edwards, merchant, of London and Bristol, by his wife, Sarah Holford. He d. 31 May 1780, and was bur. at Stanford. Will pr. July 1780. His widow d. July 1819. Will pr. 1819.

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

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• Sir Thomas Cave, 6th Bt.
• M, #27895, b. 22 August 1737, d. 30 May 1780
• Last Edited=12 Feb 2011
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• Sir Thomas Cave, 6th Bt. was born on 22 August 1737.1 He was the son of Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Bt. and Elizabeth Davies.2 He married Sarah Edwards, daughter of John Edwards and Sarah Holford, in 1765.1,3 He died on 30 May 1780 at age 42.1 His will was proven (by probate) in July 1780.3 He was buried at Stanford, Northamptonshire, England.3
• He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, on 1 April 1756.3 He was awarded the honorary degree of (an unknown value) by Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, on 8 July 1773.3 He succeeded to the title of 6th Baronet Cave, of Stanford, co. Northampton [E., 1641] on 7 August 1778.1 He was invested as a Fellow, Society of Antiquaries (F.S.A.).3 He was invested as a Fellow, Royal Society (F.R.S.).3 He held the office of Sheriff of Leicestershire between February 1780 and June 1780.3
• Children of Sir Thomas Cave, 6th Bt. and Sarah Edwards
  • Sir Thomas Cave, 7th Bt.4 b. 6 Oct 1766, d. 15 Jan 1792
  • Sarah Cave, Baroness Braye+4 b. 2 Jul 1768, d. 21 Feb 1862
• Citations
• [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.
• [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.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p2790.htm#i27895 ________________
• 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 ____________
• CAVE, Sir Thomas, 7th Bt. (1766-92), of Stanford Hall, Northants.
• b. 6 Oct. 1766, o.s. of Sir Thomas Cave, 6th Bt., of Stanford by Sarah, da. and coh. of John Edwards, merchant, of London, and Bristol, Glos. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. 1785. m. 3 June 1791, Lady Lucy Sherard, da. of Robert, 4th Earl of Harborough, s.p. suc. fa. as 7th Bt. 31 May 1780.
• Offices Held
  • Capt. Leics. militia 1788.
• Cave’s grandfather had represented Leicestershire in the Parliament of 1741 and he was chosen in 1790, on the retirement of John Peach Hungerford, on the same independent interest. The support of his future father-in-law Lord Harborough proved decisive and there was no contest. He made no mark in Parliament, where he doubtless supported Pitt, and was listed hostile to the repeal of the Test Act in Scotland in April 1791. He died, 16 Jan. 1792, ‘after a short illness’.
• See LEICESTERSHIRE; Gent. Mag. (1792), i. 93.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/ca... ______________
• OTWAY CAVE, Robert (?1796-1844), of Stanford Hall, Leics. and Castle Otway, co. Tipperary
• b. 1 Mar. 1796,1 3rd but 1st surv. s. of Henry Otway of Castle Otway and Sarah, da. and h. of Sir Thomas Cave, 6th bt., of Stanford Hall, sis. and sole h. of Sir Thomas Cave†, 7th bt., of Stanford. educ. Eton 1808; Christ Church, Oxf. 1815. m. 23 Oct. 1832,2 Sophia, da. of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th bt.*, s.p. suc. fa. to Castle Otway 1815 and took additional name of Cave by royal lic. 12 Mar. 1818. d. 29 Nov. 1844.
• .... etc.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/ot... _________________
• 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 ________________