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

Stanford hall - seat of the Cave baronets

Background

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]

Career

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]

Family

He married Elizabeth Davies, daughter of Griffith Davies in November 1735 and had by her six daughters and two sons.[2] Among them were:

Cave died, aged 66 and was buried at Stanford, Northamptonshire.[6] He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son Thomas.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2009.((cite web)): CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. Vol. I. London: Thomas Wotton. p. 365.
  3. ^ a b Sir Lewis Namier, John Brooke, ed. (2002). The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Vol. II. London: Secker & Warburg. p. 200.
  4. ^ a b Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 225.
  5. ^ a b "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Leicestershire". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 20 October 2009.((cite web)): CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. ^ "ThePeerage - Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Bt". Retrieved 9 January 2009.
Parliament of Great Britain Preceded byLord Guernsey Edward Smith Member of Parliament for Leicestershire 1741 – 1747 With: Edward Smith Succeeded byWrightson Mundy Edward Smith Preceded bySir Thomas Palmer Edward Smith Member of Parliament for Leicestershire 1762 – 1774 With: Sir Thomas Palmer 1762–1765Sir John Palmer 1765–1774 Succeeded bySir John Palmer Thomas Noel Baronetage of England Preceded byVerney Cave Baronet (of Stanford) 1734–1778 Succeeded byThomas Cave
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